Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 3127
- Museum No.
- YBC 03774
- Primary Publication
- YOS 7 009
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P305132
- Place of issue
- Uruk city
- Regional setting
- Uruk region
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Early Achaemenid
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Cyr. 01-III-4
- Date BCE
- 19/05/538
Digeanna
- Van Driel Files
- 2 a
- Text Form
- Protocol (...)
- Legal Purpose
- Statement (qabû)
- Transaction Type
- not applicable
- Domain (Eanna)
- Higher-order management and policies
- Format of the tablet
- landscape
Content
- Paraphrase
Dannu-aḫḫēšu-ibni/Šalti-ili tells Nabû-mukīn-apli/Nādinu//Dābibī, High Priest (šatammu) of Eanna, and Nabû-aḫu-iddin, Royal Overseer (ša rēš šarri bēl piqitti) of Eanna that Nabû-bēlšunu led away (abāku) 50 adult sheep and goats marked with the star symbol from the sheep and goats of the Lady of Uruk that were at the disposal (ina pāni) of the sons of Ea-ušallim and had been entrusted (paqādu) to the brothers Bēlšunu/Nabû-šumu-ukīn and Lâbâši/Nabû-šumu-ukīn by Ibni-Ištar/Šumu-ukīn.
4 witnesses.
Scribe: Gimillu/Innin-zēru-iddin.
- Legacy Paraphrase
Testimony regarding the unjustified removal of temple’s livestock.
The tablet records what A reported to the temple authorities about mistreatment of Eanna’s livestock.
A testifies (qabû) before (ana) B1, the temple administrator (šatammu) and B2, royal supervisor of the Eanna (bēl piqitti ša Eanna) that C took away (abāku) 50 adult (rabû) star-branded (sheep). The animals were taken from the sheep and goats (ṣēnu) of Eanna that are under the responsibility (ina pāni) of the (unnamed) sons of D and (legitimately) entrusted (ana paqdu paqādu) by E to the two brothers F1 and F2.
Names of 4 witnesses and the scribe.
A= Ili-dannu-ahhēšu-ibni/Šalti-ili; B1= Nabû-mukīn-zēri/Nādin//Dābibī, temple administrator (šatammu); B2= Nabû-ahu-iddin, royal supervisor of the Eanna (ša rēš šarri bēl piqitti Eanna); C= Nabû-bēlšunu; D= Ea-ušallim; E= Ibni-Ištar/Šumu-ukīn; F1= Nabû-bēlšunu/Nabû-šumu-ukīn, brother of F2; F2= Lâbâši/Nabû-šumu-ukīn, brother of F1
Yuval Levavi, Kathleen Abraham (07/09/2023)
Legacy paraphrase 2
Deposition of Dannu-aḫḫēšu-ibni/Šālti-ilu. He declares to Nabû-mukīn-apli/Nādinu//Dābibī, bishop (šatammu) of Eanna, and Nabû-aḫu-iddin, royal representative (ša rēš šarri) and commissioner (bēl piqitti) of Eanna, that Nabû-bēlšunu had stolen the 50 sheep in possession of the sons of Bēl-ušallim which Ibni-Ištar/Šumu-ukīn had given to the care of Nabû-bēlšunu and Lābāši/Nabû-šum-ukīn. Four witnesses and Gimillu/Innin-zēru-iddin, the scribe.
Cf. NaBuCCo ID 3454
Transliteration cf. https://www.ebl.lmu.de/library/YBC.3774
Further Information
- Type and Content
- Statements in court/Deposition
- last updated by
- Julia Giessler, Dec. 8, 2025, 9:31 a.m.
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- Kozuh 2014