Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 3215
- Museum No.
- AO 10270
- Primary Publication
- TCL 13 150
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P387215
- Place of issue
- Maškan-il
- Regional setting
- Uruk region
- Places mentioned on Tablet
- Ḫarri-kippi
- Piqūdu
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Early Achaemenid
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Cam. 02-III-14
- Date BCE
- 06/06/528
Digeanna
- Van Driel Files
- 3 f
- Text Form
- Order (i.a., adi ... VERB)
- Legal Purpose
- Work (ana ēpišānūti nadānu; also ina muḫḫi)
- Transaction Type
- not applicable
- Domain (Eanna)
- Personnel management and labor allocation
- Format of the tablet
- landscape
Content
- Paraphrase
Agria/Nabû-dalâ is to summon (dekû nadānu) 10 reliable (šuršudu) corvée workers for work at the (tp)Ḫarri-kippi. Should Nabû-balāssu-šarri-iqbi, the rent farmer (ša muḫḫi sūti) at the (tp)Piqūdu river (Nār-Piqūdu), send for corvée-workers and thus not give them for the (tp)Ḫarri-kippi, he incurs the punishment of Gubāru, Governor of Babylon and Across-the-River (Eber-nāri).
- Legacy Paraphrase
Obligation to deliver ploughmen for corvée work. Penalty in case of default.
The tablet lays out the obligation of A to levy (dekû) 10 equipped (šuršudu) corvée workers (urāšu) from among (ša) the ploughmen (ikkaru!) under his responsibility (ṣābu qātē).
Once he will have received the (written) message from B, the rent farmer (ša muhhi sūti) of Nār-Piqūdu, A will deliver those men to Ḫarri-kibbi. Failing to do so, he will bear the punishment of (hīṭu ša) C, the governor (pīhātu) of Babylon and Across-the-river.
Names of 2 witnesses and a scribe.
A= Agria/Nabû-dalā, a known chief of ploughman and a temple-serf of Eanna; B= Nabû-balāṭu-šarri-iqbi, rent farmer (ša muhhi sūti) of Nār-Piqūdu; C= Gūbaru, governor (pīhātu) of Babylon and Across-the-river.
Further Information
- Type and Content
- Summonses/Oaths/Injunctions
- last updated by
- Matthias Adelhofer, April 3, 2026, 10:02 a.m.
- Imported (Person, Date)
- Yuval Levavi, Kathleen Abraham (07/09/2023)
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- Moore, NBBAD (1935)