Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 3217
- Museum No.
- YBC 09177
- Primary Publication
- YOS 17 033
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P309899
- Place of issue
- Kar-Eanna
- Regional setting
- Kar-Eanna
- Archive
- Nūr-Sîn
- Period
- Neo-Babylonian
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- XXX. 19-IX-20
- Date BCE
- 25/12/586
Digeanna
- Van Driel Files
- 3 c
- Text Form
- Debt note ("promissory note") (uˀiltu; ina muḫḫi; ina pāni)
- Legal Purpose
- Summons (adi ... abāku, alāku)
- Format of the tablet
- landscape
- Private context
- True
Content
- Paraphrase
Between the 20th day of m.IX and 15th day of m.X of Nergal-ina-tēšî-ēṭir/Zabidā, brother of farmers of the Lady of Uruk, along with their sons, their brothers, their helper (kutallu) and the extra men, who is with them from Nabû-ahhē-iddin/Nergal-ušallim//Nūr-Sîn, the High Priest (šatammu) of Eanna. If anyone (mamman) place in hiding (ana pašīru šakānu), he will pay thirtyfold to the Lady of Uruk.
3 witnesses and the scribe Nabû-bān-ahi/Ibnāya//Ekur-zakir
Notes
The document is part of the Nūr-Sîn archive.
- Legacy Paraphrase
Between the 20th of Kislīm (IX) and the 15th of Ṭebēt (X) A has to bring along (abāku) all the ploughmen (ikkaru) of the Lady-of-Uruk in Kār-Eanna, along with their sons, their brothers, their substitutes (kutallu), and the extra men (ṭīpu)* who are with them and show (kullumu) them to B, the temple administrator (šatammu)** of Eanna.
If he hides (paširu šakānu) any (mamma) of these men, he will pay (nadānu) thirty-fold to the Lady-of-Uruk.
Name of 3 witnesses and a scribe.
* For ṭīpu see Janković 2013 (PhD diss.), 3565.
** This text sets the teminus post quem for Nabû-ahhē-iddin’s term as temple administrator (see Levavi, NABU 2014/4).
A= Nergal-ina-tēšê-ēṭir/Zabidāya; B= Nabû-ahhē-iddin/Nergal-ušallim//Nūr-Sîn, temple administrator (šatammu) of Eanna.
Further Information
- last updated by
- Sarah Grosser, Feb. 9, 2026, 12:47 p.m.
- Imported (Person, Date)
- Yuval Levavi, Kathleen Abraham (07/09/2023)
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- Janković 2013 (unpubl. PhD diss.)
- YOS 17