Basic Metadata

NaBuCCo ID
3198
Museum No.
YBC 03712
CDLI P-Identifier
Place of issue
Uruk city
Type and Content
Summonses/Oaths/Injunctions
Archive
Eanna temple
Dossier
None
Period
Each
Year BCE
None
Editio princeps
YOS 7

Content

Paraphrase

Obligation to deliver ploughmen from among the temple serfs for work in a royal building project. Penalty in case of default.

A1, the temple administrator (šatammu), and A2, the courtier and royal supervisor (ša rēš šarri bēl piqitti) of Eanna, handed over (nadānu, Pret.) 40 ploughmen (ikkaru), temple-serfs (širku), to B, a ploughman and temple-serf himself. B should bring (abāku) these 40 men to Baṭnānu for (ana) building work (dullu epēšu) at the royal palace in (ša ina) Baṭnānu.

If any of them will go (alāku) to another place (ašar šanamma), B will bear (šadādu) the punishment (hīṭu) of the king.

Names of 3 witnesses and a scribe.

A1= Nabû-mukīn-apli/Nādin/Dābibī, temple administrator (šatammu) of Eanna; A2= Sîn-šarru-uṣur, courtier and royal supervisor (ša rēš šarri bēl piqitti) of Eanna; B= Lâbâši/Nanāya-ahu-iddin, ploughman (ikkaru) and temple-serf.

Transliteration
Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
Cam. 06-IV-8

further information

Imported (Person, Date)
Yuval Levavi, Kathleen Abraham (07/09/2023)
Legacy NaBuCCo ID
None