Basic Metadata

NaBuCCo ID
3222
Museum No.
YBC 03715
CDLI P-Identifier
Place of issue
Uruk city
Type and Content
Summonses/Oaths/Injunctions
Archive
Eanna temple
Dossier
None
Period
NB
Year BCE
None
Editio princeps
Payne 2007 (unpubl. PhD diss.)

Content

Paraphrase

Obligation of five launderers to manufacture and deliver curtains to the temple against the payment of rations in naturaliaThe tablet lays out the obligations imposed by the Eanna temple on 5 launderers (pūṣāya):

A1, A2 (A1’s son), A3 (A1’s father), A4, and A5.

Starting on the 1st of Ṭebēt (X) 40 Nbk, A15 will annually make (epēšu) and deliver (nadānu) to Eanna 5 curtains (gadalû) for the gate(s) (bābu) of the cella(s) (bīt papāhu) of the Lady-of-Uruk, Nanāya, Uṣur-amāssu, Gula, and Nergal (dIGI.DU) … (uncl.) of the cords (guhaṣṣu) and neck(lace) (kišādu) …s (uncl.) of the entire year. They shall withdraw (našû) their rations from Eanna half in barley and half in dates.

Names of 4 witnesses (B1–4) and a scribe (C).

 

* For similar contracts see GC 1,412 and PTS 3053.

 

A1= Nanāya-iddin/Amīl-Nanāya (= A3), father of A2, launderer (pūṣāya), known as temple-serf, see Payne 2007 (PhD diss.), 188; A2= Innin-šumu-uṣur/Nanāya-iddin (= A1), launderer (pūṣāya), see Payne 2007 (PhD diss.), 172; A3= Amīl-Nanāya/Šullumāya, launderer (pūṣāya), father of A1, see Payne 2007 (PhD diss.), 155f.; A4= Nanāya-iddin/fNanāya-rēṣûni (a zakītu-woman), launderer (pūṣāya), see Payne 2007 (PhD diss.), 188; A5= Šamaš-iddin/Bušāya, launderer (pūṣāya), see Payne 2007 (PhD diss.), 195; B1= Šamaš-udammiq/Iqīšāya//Rēˀi alpī (witness); B2= Bēl-nādin-aplu/Zēru-Bābili//Ileˀˀi-Marduk (witness); B3= Marduk-erība/Ibnāya//Egibi (witness); B4= Marduk/Marduk-nāṣir//Gimil-Nanāya (witness); C= Nabû-mukīn-apli/Zēria, scribe (ṭupšarru)

Transliteration
Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
Nbk. 40-X-6

further information

Imported (Person, Date)
Yuval Levavi, Kathleen Abraham (07/09/2023)
Legacy NaBuCCo ID
None