Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 3218
- Museum No.
- NBC 01047
- Primary Publication
- BIN 1 112
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P291395
- Place of issue
- Uruk city
- Regional setting
- Uruk region
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Neo-Babylonian
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Nbk. 19-VI-25
- Date BCE
- 28/09/589
Digeanna
- Van Driel Files
- 2 e
- Text Form
- Note (...)
- Legal Purpose
- Inspection (amirtu)
- Transaction Type
- transactional (incoming)
- Domain (Eanna)
- Animal husbandry
- Format of the tablet
- landscape
Content
- Paraphrase
Temple oxen are being inspected: in total, 62 cattle from Nabû-šumu-ibni/[...], Nergal-ina-tēšî-ēṭir/Zabidāya, Silim-Bēl/Aplāya, and Bulluṭāya/Nanāya-aplu-ibni that the chiefs of ten (rab ešerti) registered (šaṭāru), they gave to the High Priest (šatammu). Should there be more than 62, they will pay a 30-fold fine to the temple.
3 witnesses, and the scribe Nabû-bāni-aḫi/[...]
- Legacy Paraphrase
Audit of temple oxen at the disposal of decurions. Penalty in case of irregularities.
Four decurions (rab ešerti) register (šaṭāru) the oxen at their disposal (ina pāni) and give (nadānu) the records to the temple administrator (šatammu): list: 19 oxen of A1, 16 oxen of A1, 11 oxen of A3, and 16 oxen of A4; total: 62 oxen.
If more than (elat) these 62 oxen will be seen (amāru) at their disposal, each one will pay thirtyfold to the Lady-of-Uruk.
Names of 3 witnesses and a scribe.
A1= Nabû-šumu-ibni/Šūzubu, decurion (rab ešerti); A2= Nergal-ina-tēšê-ēṭir/Zabidāya, decurion (rab ešerti); A3= Silim-Bēl/Aplāya, decurion (rab ešerti); A4= Bulluṭāya/Nanāya-ibni, decurion (rab ešerti).
Further Information
- Type and Content
- Summonses/Oaths/Injunctions
- last updated by
- Matthias Adelhofer, May 15, 2026, 7:22 a.m.
- Imported (Person, Date)
- Yuval Levavi, Kathleen Abraham (07/09/2023)
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- Janković 2013 (unpubl. PhD diss.)