VAT 08505

Iddināya/Ērešu (I) guarantees towards Nabû-mukīn-apli/Nādinu//Dābibī (NMA), High Priest (šatammu) of Eanna, and Nabû-aḫu-iddin (NAI), Royal Overseer (ša rēš šarri bēl piqitti) of Eanna, for 3 oblates of the Lady of Uruk: Kudurrānu/Nanāya-uṣalli (K), his brother Lâbâši/Nanāya-uṣalli and Nidintu/Kudurrānu (= son of K?). If they should disappear, I will give 12.000 baked bricks as annual work assignement (iškāru) for each man to the Lady of Uruk. K guarantees for his nephew (lit.: son of his brother) Ērib-rēʼûa/Itti-Šamaš-balāṭu, oblate of the Lady of Uruk. By the 1^st day of m.IX he will bring him to Eanna and hand him over to NMA and NAI. Balāṭu/Kiribtu//Bābūtu guarantees for I.

3 witnesses.

Scribe: Gimillu/Innin-zēru-iddin.  

Guarantee against escape of temple-serfs. Penalty in case of default.

The tablet records three cases of temple-serfs who bear responsibility for their colleagues.

A (probably a temple-serf) guarantees (pūtu našû) for B1 and B1 (brothers) and B3 (son of B1), the temple-serfs of the Lady-of-Uruk, before (ina qātē) C1, the temple administrator (šatammu), and C2, royal supervisor (rēš šarri bēl piqitti) of Eanna. If B1–3 goes (alāku) to another place (ašar šanamma), A will have to deliver their yearly iškaru-obligation of 12,000 bricks each (i.e. 36,000).

B1 guarantees for D, temple-serf (širku), whom he will deliver to C1 and C2 on the 1st of Kislīm (IX). E guarantee for A.

Names of 3 witnesses and a scribe.

A= Iddināya/Erēšu; B1= Kudurānu/Nanāya-uṣalli, temple-serf, brother of B2, father of B3; B2= Lâbâši/Nanāya-uṣalli, temple-serf, brother of B1; B2= Nidinti/Kdurānu (= B1), temple-serf; C1= Nabû-mukīn-apli/Nādin/Dābibī, temple administrator (šatammu) of Eanna; C2= Nabû-ahu-iddin, royal supervisor (rēš šarri bēl piqitti) of Eanna; D= Erīb-rēˀûa/Itti-Šamaš-balāṭu, temple-serf; E= Balāṭu/Kiribtu//Babutu; X9= ;