Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 3229
- Museum No.
- AO 6919
- Primary Publication
- TCL 13 162
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P387227
- Place of issue
- Uruk city
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Early Achaemenid
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Cam. 03-X-26
- Date BCE
- 30/01/526
Digeanna
- Van Driel Files
- 2 e
- Text Form
- Order (i.a., adi ... VERB)
- Legal Purpose
- Debt Repayment (maḫir, eṭir)
- Transaction Type
- transactional (incoming)
- Domain (Eanna)
- Animal husbandry
- Format of the tablet
- landscape
Content
- Paraphrase
By Cam. 3.IX.1 (the month name is somewhat damaged but is either m.IX or m.XII), Zēria/Nanāya-ēreš, Chief of Flocks (rab būli) must bring hoggets from his outstanding balance and the one of the herdsmen (nāqidu) under his authority. He will provide them (nadānu) for the temple's regular offerings (ginû) from m.XI. Otherwise he incurs the punishment (ḫīṭu) of the king.
In the presence of Nabû-mukīn-apli/Nādinu//Dābibi, the High Priest (šatammu) of Eanna, 3 witnesses, and the scribe Arad-Marduk/Marduk-šumu-iddin//Bēl-aplu-uṣur.
- Legacy Paraphrase
Obligation to deliver livestock to the temple for offerings.
The tablet lays down the obligation of A, the overseer of herds (rab būli), to bring in (abāku) 355 male yearling sheep (kalūmu mār šattu) from (ina) his outstanding balance (rēhu) and from balance of the herdsmen (nāqidu) under his control (ṣābu qātē) by the 1st of Šabāṭ! (XI) 3 Camb. He will then give them (nadānu) for (ana) the daily offerings (sattukku) of the Lady-of-Uruk, which begin on (ultu) the 1st of Šabāṭ (XI).
If A does not deliver the lambs, he will bear the punishment of the king (hīṭu ša šarru šadādu).
The document is written in the presence (ina ušuzzu) of B. Witnesses (mukinnu): C1, C2, and C3. Scribe (ṭupšarru) D.
A= Zēria/Nanāya-ēreš, overseer of herds (rab būli); B= Nabû-mukīn-zēri/Nādin//Dābibī, temple administrator (šatammu) of Eanna; C1= Šamaš-mukīn-apli/Madān-ahhē-iddin//Šigūa; C2= Nādin/Bēl-ahhē-iqīša//Šigūa; C3= Marduk-nāṣir/Madān-ahhē-iddin//Šigūa; D= Arad-Marduk/Marduk-šumu-iddin//Bēl-aplu-uṣur, scribe (ṭupšarru)
Further Information
- Type and Content
- Summonses/Oaths/Injunctions
- last updated by
- Matthias Adelhofer, April 9, 2026, 2:10 p.m.
- Imported (Person, Date)
- Yuval Levavi, Kathleen Abraham (07/09/2023)
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- Moore, NBBAD (1935)