Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 3134
- Museum No.
- YBC 03957
- CDLI P-Identifier
- Place of issue
- None
- Type and Content
- None
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Dossier
- None
- Period
- Each
- Year BCE
- None
- Editio princeps
Content
- Paraphrase
A approaches (ana pāni alāku) B, the temple administrator (šatammu) of Eanna, regarding his (= A’s) consecration (gullubu) for the brewers’ prebend (isqu) of the Lady-of-Uruk.
In order to evaluate A’s request, B summons two members of A’s clan (the Ekur-zākir family), C1 and C2, and they testify (qabû) in the assembly of the mār banês that A is the (rightful) owner of the prebend (bēl išqi) and that his mother is pure (ellu).*
B checks the writing board of the treasury (kizlāqu) of the Lady-of-Uruk and assigns to A the days that used to be assigned to D, the brother of A’s grandfather.
Names of 6 witnesses and the scribe.
* For the process and terms of this case, and Babylonian priesthood in general, see Waerzeggers, C. and Jursa, M. (2008). On the Initiation of Babylonian Priests. ZABR 14, 1-23.
A= Nabû-mušētiq-uddê/Innin-ina-tēšê-ēṭir//Ekur-zākir; B= Nabû-mukīn-apli/Nādin/Dābibī, temple administrator (šatammu) of Eanna; C1= Innin-aplu-uṣur/Nabû-balāssu-iqbi//Ekur-zākir; C2= Šamaš-zēru-iddin/Ahulap-Ištar//Ekur-zākir; D= Marduk-šumu-iddin, brother of A’s grandfather
- Transliteration
- None
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Cam. yy-XII-9
further information
- Imported (Person, Date)
- Legacy NaBuCCo ID
- None