Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 3450
- Museum No.
- YBC 04023
- Primary Publication
- YOS 7 005
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P305335
- Place of issue
- Uruk city
- Regional setting
- Uruk region
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Early Achaemenid
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Cyr. 01-I-04
- Date BCE
- 21/03/538
Digeanna
- Van Driel Files
- 1 i
- Text Form
- Protocol (...)
- Legal Purpose
- Other or sfs (various verbs)
- Transaction Type
- not applicable
- Domain (Eanna)
- Higher-order management and policies
- Format of the tablet
- landscape
- Sealings
- True
Content
- Paraphrase
Nabû-mukīn-zēri/Nādinu//Dābibī, High Priest (šatammu) of Eanna, and Nabû-aḫu-iddin, Royal Overseer (ša rēš šarri bēl piqitti) of Eanna, appoint Nūrēa/Šamaš-uballiṭ (N) to guard Eanna (ana maṣṣarti paqādu). Each day, he will install four craftsmen (ummânu) of Eanna on the roof of Nilzim Gate and Illūru Gate, and the rest he will install in their storehouses (bīt qātē). Among them, the felters (sēpû) Zerbibi, Bazuzu/Nā’id-Ištar, Anu-aḫu-iddin, Ardia, and Nūrea, will be appointed (ša našparti) to guard the courtyard house (bīt kisalli) and workshops of scouts (bīt šutummi ša dayyāli).
N guarantees to guard Eanna.
5 witnesses.
Scribe: Balāṭu/Sîn-ibni//Rē’i-alpī.
Seal impression (AUWE 18 44) on the left-hand edge.
- Legacy Paraphrase
Official appointment. Nabû-mukīn-apli/Nādinu//Dābibī, bishop (šatammu) of Eanna, and Nabû-aḫu-iddin, royal representative (ša rēš šarri) and commissioner (bēl piqitti) of Eanna, appoint Nūrēa/Šamaš-uballiṭ to guard (ana maṣṣarti) Eanna. He has to supervise the artisans (ummânū), two of whom are posted on the roof of the Nilzim-gate, two more on the roof of the illūru plant-gate, and the remainder in their workshops (bīt qātê). Five tanners Kulbibi, Bazūzu/Naˀid-Ištar, Anu-aḫu-iddin, Ardiya, and Nūrēa are to supervise the workshop (bīt dulli) and the storehouse (bīt šutummi). Five witnesses and the scribe, Rīm-Anu/Sîn-ibni.
- Transliteration
- https://www.ebl.lmu.de/fragmentarium/YBC.4023
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- last updated by
- Małgorzata Sandowicz, July 3, 2025, 11:14 a.m.