Basic Metadata

NaBuCCo ID
3195
Museum No.
NBC 01061
Primary Publication
BIN 1 106
CDLI P-Identifier
P291408
Place of issue
Uruk city
Regional setting
Uruk city
Archive
Eanna temple
Period
Early Achaemenid
Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
Cyr. 07-V-05
Date BCE
09/08/532

Digeanna

Van Driel Files
3 c
Text Form
Order (i.a., adi ... VERB)
Legal Purpose
Summons (adi ... abāku, alāku)
Transaction Type
not applicable
Domain (Eanna)
Personnel management and labor allocation
Format of the tablet
landscape

Content

Paraphrase

Until Cyr.07.V.20, (f)Emuqtu (E), wife of Nādinu the oblate (širku) of Ištar of Uruk, will deliver (abāku) Rēmutu and Nanaya-iddin, her sons and oblates of the Lady of Uruk, and give (nadānu) them to Nabû-mukīn-apli/Nādinu//Dābibī, High Priest (šatammu) of Eanna and Nabû-aḫu-iddin, Royal Overseer (bēl piqitti) of Eanna. Etellu/Eanna-šumu-līšir//Maḫḫû and Šamaš-napšāti-uṣur/Šamaš-(…)//Kidin-Marduk stand surety (pūt našû) for E. One guarantees for the other. 

3 witnesses are listed. The scribe is Gimillu/Innin-zēru-iddin, in Uruk.

Legacy Paraphrase

Guarantee for a woman who has to deliver her two sons (temple-serfs) to the temple.

fA, wife of B, the temple-serf (širku) of Ištar of Uruk, is to deliver (abāku-ma nadānu) her 2 sons, the temple-serfs C1 and C2, by (adi) the 20th of Abu (V), 7 Cyr to D1, the temple administrator (šatammu) of Eanna, and D2, the courtier and royal supervisor (ša rēš šarri bēl piqitti) of Eanna.

E1 and E2 guarantee for fA. Each is responsible for the other (ištēn pūtu šanû našû).

Names of 3 witnesses and a scribe.

fA= fEmuqu, wife of B and mother of X1–2; B= Nādin, temple-serf (širku), husband of A; C1= Rēmūt/fEmuqu (= fA), temple-serf and brother of C2; C2= Nanāya-iddin/fEmuqu (= fA), temple-serf and brother of C1; D1= Nabû-mukīn-apli/Nādin/Dābibī, temple administrator (šatammu) of Eanna; D2= Nabû-ahu-iddin, courtier and royal supervisor (ša rēš šarri bēl piqitti) of Eanna E1= Etellu/Eanna-šumu-līšir//Mahhû; E2= Šamaš-napšāti-uṣur/Šamaš-[…]//Kidin-Marduk


Further Information

Type and Content
Summonses/Oaths/Injunctions
last updated by
Dylan Schimek, Sept. 30, 2026, 8:25 a.m.
Imported (Person, Date)
Yuval Levavi, Kathleen Abraham (07/09/2023)
Mentioned in the following publication(s)
Ragen 2006