Basic Metadata

NaBuCCo ID
8965
Museum No.
CBS 03590
Primary Publication
BE 8 73
CDLI P-Identifier
P259963
Place of issue
Nippur city
Regional setting
Nippur region
Places mentioned on Tablet
Abul Ninurta
Archive
The sons of Līšir
Period
Early Achaemenid
Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
Cyr. 8-VI-25
Date BCE
17/09/521

Digeanna

Text Form
Debt note ("promissory note") (uˀiltu; ina muḫḫi; ina pāni)
Legal Purpose
Debt Repayment (maḫir, eṭir)
Format of the tablet
landscape

Content

Paraphrase

BE 8, 73 is a debt note recording an outstanding debt resulting from an agricultural impost (imittu) of 2;0.5.0 gurs of dates from a field belonging to Galpari, son of Gultamu.

Sūqāya, son of Līšir, owes (ina muḫḫi) the dates to Šamšāya, son of Kīnāya, at the Ninurta Gate. Payment is due in the month araḫsamna (eighth month)..

Two witnesses and one scribe: Bēlšunu, son of Enlil-šumu-iddin, Balāssu, son of Tabnēa, and the scribe Rēmūt, son of Šamaš-zēru-ibni.


Further Information

created by
Lynn-Salambô Zimmermann, Oct. 15, 2026, 6:55 p.m.
last updated by
Lynn-Salambô Zimmermann, Oct. 15, 2026, 6:55 p.m.
Mentioned in the following publication(s)
Jursa 2010