Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 3205
- Museum No.
- NBC 01223
- Primary Publication
- BIN 2 111
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P297129
- Place of issue
- Uruk city
- Regional setting
- Uruk city
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Early Achaemenid
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Cyr. 05-VII-19
- Date BCE
- 14/10/534
Digeanna
- Van Driel Files
- 3 c
- Text Form
- Order (i.a., adi ... VERB)
- Legal Purpose
- Conditional Decision (kî +Verb in perfect form)
- 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
(On) Cyr.04.VIII.01, Marduk-aplu-uṣur/Mušēzib-Marduk//Amīl-Ea will bring (abāku) Galala (G), oblate (širku) of the Lady of Uruk and deliver him (nadānu) to Eanna. If he does not do so, he will pay (nadānu) 4000 baked bricks (agurru) annually to the Lady of Uruk, his (mng. G’s) work obligation (iškaru), from the day since G has been at his disposal (ina pāni).
3 witnesses are listed. The scribe is Gimillu/Innin-zēru-iddin, in Uruk.
- Legacy Paraphrase
Guarantee to present a temple-serf to the temple. Penalty in case of default.
A takes upon himself to bring (abāku) B, the temple-serf (širku) of the Lady-of-Uruk, to the Eanna temple and hand him over (nadānu). Otherwise, A will deliver the 4000 bricks, the annual iškaru-obligation of B, for as long as B was at his disposal (ina pāni).
Names of 3 witnesses and a scribe.
A= Marduk-aplu-uṣur/Amīl-Ea; B= Galala, temple-serf.
Further Information
- Type and Content
- Summonses/Oaths/Injunctions
- last updated by
- Dylan Schimek, Sept. 30, 2026, 8:11 a.m.
- Imported (Person, Date)
- Yuval Levavi, Kathleen Abraham (07/09/2023)
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- Ragen 2006
- San Nicolò 1937