Basic Metadata

NaBuCCo ID
3151
Museum No.
PTS 2075
CDLI P-Identifier
Place of issue
Uruk city
Type and Content
Court protocols
Archive
Eanna temple
Dossier
None
Period
Each
Year BCE
None
Editio princeps
Jankovic 2013 (unpubl. PhD diss.)

Content

Paraphrase

Order to deliver debt notes for imposts of dates requested by the temple.

The tablet concerns debt notes that were requested by the temple via a written order issued by two of its officials (A1-2), and the fulfilment of this order. It also describes the proceedings that took place in the temple court, although the exact context is not perfectly comprehensible.

A1, the temple administrator (šatammu), and A2, the royal supervisor (ša rēš šarri bēl piqitti) sent a letter to B1B2, and B3, the scribes (ṭupšarru) of C, ordering them to bring the debt notes (uˀiltu) of C from the accession year of Cambyses. It concerns claims for dates from the impost (imittu) on fields and the fixed rent (sūtu), for which C was responsible. The dates were the property (makkūru) of the Lady-of-Uruk. The temple requests those debt notes for dates that C [imposed] on the gardeners, as well as the ones entrusted (nadānu) to D, the rent farmer (ša muhhi sūti) [of dates?] instead (kūm) of C. Although not specifically stated, it seems that the letter was read out in the assembly.

Following this order, B1-3 took the tablets, which were in E1’s house, from E2E1’s wife. They took a chest (šaddu) with the debt notes for the imposts of dates [sealed] with C’s seal, and a box (quppu) with the remaining debt notes for the fields on the other bank of Nār-šarri, not sealed with C’s seal, and gave it all to A1+2, in the presence (ina ušuzzu) of 8 freemen (mār bane,  F1–8).

Finally, though fragmentary, the text states that the debt notes of [...] and the copies of the debt notes, following the written orders of [A1+2], were transferred to D

A1= Nabû-mukīn-apli/Nādin/Dābibī, temple administrator (šatammu) of Eanna; A2= Nabû-ahu-iddin, royal supervisor (ša rēš šarri bēl piqitti) of Eanna; B1= Lâbāši-Marduk/Arad-Bēl//Egibi; B2= Mušēzib-Bēl/Balāssu//Amīl-Ea; B3= Itti-Nabû-balāṭu/Tabnēa//Kalbi-Nanna, scribe (ṭupšarru) of Ardia (= C); C= Ardia/Nabû-bān-ahi//Rēmūt-Ea; D= Nabû-bān-ahi/Kalbāya//Basia, rent farmer (ša muhhi sūti) [of dates?]; E1= Rēmūt/Nabû-ikṣur//Dābibī, husband of fRēˀindu (= E2); E2= fRēˀindu, wife of Rēmūt (= E1); F1= Šamaš-mukīn-apli/Madān-ahhē-iddin//Šigūa, freeman (mār banê); F2= Marduk-šumu-uṣur/Bēl-uballiṭ//Pūṣu, freeman (mār banê); F3= Marduk-šumu-ibni/Bēl-ahu-šubši//Amīl-Ea, freeman (mār banê); F4= Nabû-nādin-apli/Bānia//Bāˀiru, freeman (mār banê); F5= Bēl-nādin-apli/Marduk-šumu-iddin//Bēl-aplu-uṣur, freeman (mār banê); F6= Marduk-šāpik-zēri/Balāṭu//Miṣirāya, freeman (mār banê); F7= Anu-zēru-šubši/Eanna-nādin-šumi//Dāˀiqu, freeman (mār banê); F8= Anu-zēru-ibni/Nabû-ēṭer//Nabû-šarhi-ilī, freeman (mār banê).

Transliteration
Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
Cam. 0a-[x]-[x]

further information

Imported (Person, Date)
Yuval Levavi, Kathleen Abraham (11/09/2023)
Legacy NaBuCCo ID
None