Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 3126
- Museum No.
- BM 64026
- Primary Publication
- Iraq 64 (2002) 12
- Place of issue
- Sippar region
- Archive
- Later Ebabbar temple
- Period
- Early Achaemenid
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- XXX. 06-X-7
Content
- Paraphrase
Registration of a child as a temple-serf in the registry of the Ebabbar temple.
fA, a musician (nârtu), gave birth to B while serving as a musician (ina nârūti). Her mother, fC1, a female temple-serf (širkātu), wife of C2, a ploughman (ikkaru) of Šamaš, hid (pašānu) the baby from (lapāni) D, the chief priest (šangû) of Sippar and from the scribes of Sippar.
Later (arku), in 6 Cyr, fC1 confirmed (qabû) that B is the son of fA, her daughter. He is a temple-serf (širku) of Šamaš, and thus should be entered (erēbu) in the registry (lēˀu) of Šamaš.
The chief priest and the scribes of Sippar listened (šemû) to fC1 and registered (šaṭāru) B as fA’s son.
Names of 5 witnesses and the scribe.
fA= fSuduštu/fZittāya (=fC1), a musician (nârtu), mother of Ubariya (= B); B= Ubariya/fSuduštu (= fA); fC1= fZittāya, female temple-serf (širkātu), wife of Etēru (= C2), mother of fSuduštu (= fA); C2= Etēru, a ploughman (ikkaru) of Šamaš, husband of fZittāya (= fC1); D= Marduk-šumu-iddin, chief priest (šangû) of Sippar
Further Information
- Type and Content
- Statements in court/Deposition
- Imported (Person, Date)
- Yuval Levavi, Kathleen Abraham (07/09/2023)
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- Iraq 64 (2002), 217-236