Basic Metadata

NaBuCCo ID
3230
Museum No.
BM 114463
CDLI P-Identifier
Place of issue
Uruk city
Type and Content
Summonses/Oaths/Injunctions
Archive
Eanna temple
Dossier
None
Period
Each
Year BCE
None
Editio princeps
Kozuh 2014
Kraeling 1953
Kratylos 25 (1980), 1-66

Content

Paraphrase

Obligation under oath to pay silver for a wool debt.

The tablet records an obligation to pay silver in lieu of wool shorn in the countryside in the previous year. The oath is phrased as direct speech in the first person.

A swears (tamû) by Bēl, the Lady-of-Uruk, [Nanāya?], and the adê-oath of the king to bring and pay (našû nadānu) to the Eanna 1 mina of silver by the 10th of Arahsamna (VIII). This is the market value (šīmu) of the wool (šipātu) from sheep and goats (ṣēnu) in the fold (qabuttu) at A’s disposal (ina pāni), which he has shorn in the steppe (ṣēru) during the 17th year (i.e. the previous year). This is apart (elat) from any other pending balance (rēhu) he might have (ša muhhi).

Witnesses (mukinnu): B13. Scribe (ṭupšarru): C.

 

A= Šumāya/Baba-ahu-iddin (the father name Baba-šuma-iddin in Kozuh 2014, 115 is a typo); B1= Ištar-mukīn-apli/Nādin//Dābibī; B2= Kiribtu/Nādin//Babūtu; B3= Nūr-Sîn/Nabû-bān-ahi//Nūr-Sîn; C= Kīnāya//Zēria, scribe (ṭupšarru);

Transliteration
Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
Cyr. 01-VII-2

further information

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