Tablet GCBC 00550

NaBuCCo ID 3219
Museum No. GCBC 00550
CDLI P-Identifier
Place of issue
Type and content Summons/Oath/Injunction
Archive
Period Each
Year BCE None
Editio princeps GCCI 2 101
Paraphrase

Restriction imposed by the temple on goldsmiths regarding the smelting of silver.

A1, the temple administrator (šatammu) and A2, the royal supervisor (ša rēš šarri bēl piqitti) of Eanna, told B1 and B2, the goldsmiths (kutimmu) and temple-serfs (širku) the following: ‘If you smelt the ginnu-silver,* you will bear (zabālu) the penalty of the king (hīṭu ša šarri).’

Names of 2 witnesses and a scribe.

 

A1= Nidinti-Bēl/Nabû-mukīn-zēri//Dābibī, temple administrator (šatammu) of Eanna; A2= Nabû-ahu-iddin, royal supervisor (ša rēš šarri bēl piqitti) of Eanna; B1= Šamaš-ana-bītišu/Amīl-Nabû, goldsmith (kutimmu) and a known temple-serf, see Payne 2007 (PhD diss.), 254f.; B2= […]/Bēl-ēṭer, goldsmith (kutimmu) and a known temple-serf, see Payne 2007 (PhD diss.), 258.

Transliteration
Babylonian Date (year-month-day): Cyr. 04-XI-3