Basic Metadata

NaBuCCo ID
3204
Museum No.
FLP 1427
Primary Publication
JCS 28 (1976) 34
CDLI P-Identifier
P459936
Place of issue
Uruk city
Regional setting
Uruk region
Places mentioned on Tablet
Uruk region
Archive
Eanna temple
Period
Early Achaemenid
Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
Cam. 0a-X-01
Date BCE
28/12/529

Digeanna

Van Driel Files
3 e
Text Form
Contract (various verbs)
Legal Purpose
Guarantee (pūt ... našû, pūt šēpē ... našû)
Transaction Type
not applicable
Domain (Eanna)
Personnel management and labor allocation
Format of the tablet
landscape

Navico

Theme
Labour tasks & work status
Oblate/Slave Descriptor
oblate

Content

Paraphrase

Guarantee for the performance of guard duty.

Lâbâši/Kudurru, Kalbāya/Nabû-rēmanni, Nanaya-iddin/Ḫarrumāṣu and Innin-zēru-ibni/Ina-tēšî-ēṭir bear responsibility (pūtu našû) for the guard (maṣṣartu) in the courtyard (kisallu), from the (…)-gate to the milk-gate (bāb šizbi).

3 witnesses are listed. The scribe is Gimillu/Innin-zēru-iddin, (place of issue broken). 

Note: Innin-zēru-ibni/Ina-tēšî-ēṭir is known to be an oblate (širku), see Ragen (2006, p. 118-123).

Legacy Paraphrase

Guarantee for the performance of guard duty.

A1, A2, and A3, guarantee (pūtu našû) for the guard duty (maṣṣartu) in (libbu) the Eanki(?) (wr. é..ki), from (ultu) the […]-gate to (adi) the milk-gate (bāb šizbi)

Names of 3 witnesses and a scribe.

A1= Lâbâši/Kudurru/Nabû-rēmanni; A2= Nanāya-iddin/Ḫarrumāṣu; A3= Innin-zēru-ibni/Ina-tēšê-ēṭir, a known temple-serf.


Further Information

Type and Content
Summonses/Oaths/Injunctions
last updated by
Dylan Schimek, Oct. 6, 2026, 9:42 a.m.
Imported (Person, Date)
Yuval Levavi, Kathleen Abraham (07/09/2023)
Mentioned in the following publication(s)
Ragen 2006
Stigers, JCS 28 (1976), 3-59