278 A Tablet from the Zababa-šarru-uṣur Text Group in the Royal Museums of Art and History, Brussels Zoltán Niederreiter * & Cornelia Wunsch **1 Résumé Une partie du matériel cunéiforme du Docteur Georges Goreux qui a légué sa collection à la Belgique est conservée aux Musées royaux d’Art et d’Histoire, à Bruxelles. Parmi ces objets, le présent texte (O.4981, Figures 1 et 2) représente un billet à ordre pour de l’orge émis à Bīt-Kurbannu et daté du règne de Darius I er . Il appartient aux archives centrées sur Zababa-šarru-uṣur, l’intendant du domaine du prince héritier. Abstract One part of the cuneiform material of Doctor Georges Goreux who has bequeathed his collection to Belgium is kept in the Royal Museums of Art and History, Brussels. Among these objects, the present text (O.4981, Figures 1 and 2) represents a promissory note for barley issued at Bīt-Kurbannu and dated to the reign of Darius I. It belongs to the archive cluster focusing on Zababa-šarru-uṣur, the stewart of the crown prince’s estate. The text Tablet no. O.4981 CDLI P452966 Dimensions H. 54 mm. W. 66 mm. Th. 26 mm. Weight: 107.53 g Place Bīt-Kurbannu Date Darius I (522–486 BC): 20-Šabāṭu-13 (502 BC). Obverse 1. 10 gur še.bar šá md za‑ba 4 -ba 4 –lugal–ùru 2. a-šú šá md nà–numun–mu ina ugu‑ḫi m a‑qu‑ba‑ʾ 3. a-šú šá m i‑di–dingir m mu– d nà u md bu‑ne‑ne–dù 4. dumu.meš šá m i‑di–dingir md nà–ka‑ṣir 5. a-šú šá md é–dingir–nu‑ri‑ʾ ina iti gu 4 6. ˹še.bar˺ ʾ 10 gur ina uru é– m tam‑ḫa‑lu 7. ina ká ka-lak-ka i-nam-din-nu 8. lú* mu erasure blank space Reverse 9. lú* mu-kin-nu md za‑ba 4 -ba 4 –su a-šú šá 10. m zab‑di‑ia md en–sur a-šú šá md amar.utu–<na>‑din–mu 11. m šeš-šú-nu a-šú šá m ri-da-a 12. m šeš–a‑bu‑ú a-šú šá m da-di-ia 13. m bi‑i‑ni– d+ ag–a‑ḫat‑ta ! a-šú šá * MTA-ELTE Momentum Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian Cylinder Seals and Divine World Research Group (Budapest), zniederreiter@gmail.com. ** ISLET-Verlag Dresden, cornelia@islet-verlag.de. 1 We have to thank Eric Gubel and Bruno Overlaet (Royal Museums of Art and History, Brussels) who allowed us to study tablet O.5027 in January 2015 and to publish it. The “ANR-FWF, Material Culture of Babylonia during the 1st millennium BC” Research Project funded the work of Z. Niederreiter on the present manuscript in the Maison René-Ginouvès (Université Paris-Nanterre). Texts are cited with the following edition prefixes plus text number: B see Wunsch 2022; C see Pearce & Wunsch 2014; F see Fadhil al-Bayati 2021; J see Joannès & Lemaire 1996, N see Niederreiter & Wunsch (this article).