Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 3220
- Museum No.
- GCBC 00745
- Primary Publication
- GCCI 1 412
- Place of issue
- Uruk city
- Regional setting
- Uruk city
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Neo-Babylonian
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Nbn. 03-IX-21
- Date BCE
- 14/12/553
Digeanna
- Van Driel Files
- 3 e
- Text Form
- Contract (various verbs)
- Legal Purpose
- Work (ana ēpišānūti nadānu; also ina muḫḫi)
- Transaction Type
- not applicable
- Domain (Eanna)
- Cult and pertinent craft production
- Format of the tablet
- landscape
Navico
Content
- Paraphrase
A list of 5 bleachers (pūṣāyu): Dannu-aḫḫēšu-ēṭir/(…) (DAE), Rēmūtu/Ninurta-[šarru-uṣur], Nanaya-iddin/Balāssu, Šumu-iddin/Nabû-aplu-uṣur, and Nidintu/(f)Kuzbāya, son of a novice oblate (zakītu).
From the first day of m.IX of Nbn.03 on, DAE will deliver (nadānu) annually 5 linen curtains (gadalalû), a product (šipru) (corresponding to) one half from the (manufacture) work and repairwork of Eanna. No one shall remove (abāku) them from their work. He will deliver (1-4 curtains) in the middle of the year and (1-4 curtains) at the end of the year respectively.
4 witnesses are listed. The scribe is Nabû-bān-aḫi/Nabû-balāssu-iqbi//Sîn-leqe-unninnī, in Uruk.
- Legacy Paraphrase
Obligation of 5 launderers to (manufacture and) deliver curtains to the temple.
The tablet lays out the obligations imposed by the Eanna temple on 5 launderers (pūṣāya): A1, A2, A3, A4, and A5. Although all five will do the work, only A1 who is responsible for the actual delivery.
Starting on day 1 of Ṭebēt (X), 3 Nbn, A1 will deliver annually to Eanna five curtains (gadalû), which are half of the manufacture (dullu) and repair (batqu) tasks (šipru, imposed on him) by (ina) the Eanna. He (i.e. A1) will give 3 curtains at the middle of the year and 2 at the end of the year. No one shall interrupt (lit. take away, abāku)* them (i.e. all 5) from (ultu muhhi) their work. The text does not mention any remuneration for the launderers.
Names of 2 witnesses (B1–4) and a scribe (C).
For similar contracts, see PTS 3053 and YBC 3715.
A1= Dannu-ahhēšu-ēṭer/[…], launderer (pūṣāya), see Payne 2007 (PhD diss.), 163; A2= Rēmūt/Ninurta-šarru-uṣur, launderer (pūṣāya), see Payne 2007 (PhD diss.), 192; A3= Nanāya-iddin/Balāssu, launderer (pūṣāya), see Payne 2007 (PhD diss.), 188; A4= Šumu-iddin/Nabû-ēdu-uṣur, launderer (pūṣāya), see Payne 2007 (PhD diss.), 199; A5= Nidintu/Ninurta-šarru-uṣur, and the son of fKusbāya (zakītu-woman), launderer (pūṣāya), see Payne 2007 (PhD diss.), 190; B1= Nādin/Bēl-ahhē-iqīša//Egibi (witness); B2= Innin-zēru-šubši/Balāssu (witness); B3= […]/Ibni-Ištar//Ašlāku (witness); B4= Eanna-šumu-ibni/Ahhēšāya (witness); C= Nabû-bān-ahi/Nabû-balāssu-iqbi//Sîn-lēqi-unnini, scribe (ṭupšarru)
Further Information
- Type and Content
- Summonses/Oaths/Injunctions
- last updated by
- Dylan Schimek, Oct. 5, 2026, 3:45 p.m.
- Imported (Person, Date)
- Yuval Levavi, Kathleen Abraham (07/09/2023)
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- Nosch, Michel & Harlow 2014
- Payne 2007 (unpubl. PhD diss.)
- Quillien 2022