Basic Metadata

NaBuCCo ID
3208
Museum No.
YBC 06919
CDLI P-Identifier
P307934
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

Restriction on the movement of an imprisoned temple-serf.

A, a temple-serf (širku) of Ištar of Uruk was placed in fetters (ina semeri ṣabātu) and handed over to B, his brother, to (ana) chop (habāšu) straw (tibnu) in the royal cattle shed (bīt alpi).

The tablet states that if (lit. “on the day that”) A will be seen in a tavern (bīt šikari), B will “give him his just desert” (mullû, in the expression mullê ana muhhišu un-da-al-lu).

The tablet is drafted in the presence (ina ušuzzu) of C, the temple administrator (šatammu) of Eanna + names of 2 witnesses and a scribe.

A= Šamaš-bēl-kullati/Lâbâši, a temple-serf (širku) of Ištar of Uruk (see YOS 97 for his faild attempt to escape prison one year later), brother of B; B= Anu-zēru-šubši/Lâbâši, brother of A and a known scribe; C= Nabû-mukīn-apli/Nādin/Dābibī, temple administrator (šatammu) of Eanna.

Transliteration
Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
Cyr. 08-XII-26

further information

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