Basic Metadata

NaBuCCo ID
3241
Museum No.
GCBC 00498
Primary Publication
GCCI 1 361
CDLI P-Identifier
P294397
Place of issue
No place
Regional setting
Uruk region
Archive
Eanna temple
Period
Neo-Babylonian
Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
Nbn. 07-XII-08
Date BCE
15/03/548

Digeanna

Van Driel Files
3 a
Text Form
Note (...)
Legal Purpose
Gift (ana PN nadānu, pāni šudgulu)
Transaction Type
transactional (incoming)
Domain (Eanna)
Personnel management and labor allocation
Format of the tablet
landscape

Navico

Theme
Slave/Oblate status
Oblate/Slave Role
Is dedicated (oblate) (passive)

Content

Paraphrase

Note recording Lāqīpu, who was given by his master Ardia/Nergal-nāṣir as an oblate (širku) for the Lady of Uruk. No main clause.

Legacy Paraphrase

Note regarding the dedication of a new temple-serf to the Eanna temple. Dated.

This tablet simply accounts for the presence of A among the temple’s serfs: A is a temple-serf (širku) because (ša, lit. whom) B, (by now former) master (bēlu) consecrated (nadānu, Perf.) him to the temple-serf status (širkūtu) of the Lady-of-Uruk.

 

A= Lâqīp, a temple-serf of Eanna and a former slave of B; B= Ardia/Nergal-nāṣir


Further Information

Type and Content
Inventories
last updated by
Dylan Schimek, Oct. 5, 2026, 2:26 p.m.
Imported (Person, Date)
Yuval Levavi, Kathleen Abraham (08/09/2023)
Mentioned in the following publication(s)
GCCI 1