Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 3455
- Museum No.
- YBC 04176
- Primary Publication
- YOS 7 010
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P305488
- Place of issue
- Uruk city
- Regional setting
- Uruk region
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Early Achaemenid
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Cyr. 01-II-01
- Date BCE
- 16/04/538
Digeanna
- Van Driel Files
- 1 b
- Text Form
- Protocol (...)
- Legal Purpose
- Statement (qabû)
- Transaction Type
- not applicable
- Domain (Eanna)
- Higher-order management and policies
- Format of the tablet
- landscape
Content
- Paraphrase
Nabû-rēṣûa, slave of Lâbâši-Marduk/Arad-Bēl//Egibi, testifies without interrogation (maš’altu) before Nabû-mukīn-apli/Nādinu//Dābibī, High Priest (šatammu) of Eanna, and Nabû-aḫu-iddin, Royal Overseer (ša rēš šarri bēl piqitti) of Eanna. He reports that on the night of the 28th day of m.IX, his master’s son Iddināya/Lâbâši-Marduk//Egibi (I) unlawfully (ina sarti) removed (nasāḫu) the grinding slab of a cumin mill (eri ḫa-ši-mur*) belonging to Ištar-aḫu-iddin/Innin-zēru-uṣur//Nabû-šarḫi-ilāni (IAI) from the lower grindstone (ummatu), and that he put it in a box (šaddu). Nabû-lū-dāri, the slave of Bānia/Tarībi[…] is mentioned in this context.
Ḫašdāya, the brother of I, declares in the assembly (puḫru) that he has seen the stolen (ina sarti našû) grinding slab from IAI’s workshop (bīt šutummi) in his father’s house.
7 witnesses, among them Rēmūt-Bēl/Bēl-uballiṭ/Gimil-Nanāya, Big Brother (ahu rabû) of Eanna.
Scribe: Gimillu/Innin-zēru-iddin.
Following Holtz 2014 and Joannès 2023, the stolen item was a precious Marḫaši gemstone (na4mur-ḫa-ši-tu). Collation (Sandowicz, JAOS 144: 743 n. 20) does not support this reading.
- Legacy Paraphrase
Deposition of Nabû-rēṣūa, slave (qallu) of Lâbâši-Marduk/Arad-Bēl//Egibi. He declares (without questioning, mašˀaltu) to Nabû-mukīn-apli/Nādinu//Dābibī, bishop (šatammu) of Eanna, and Nabû-aḫu-iddin, royal representative (ša rēš šarri) and commissioner (bēl piqitti) of Eanna, that Iddināya/Lâbâši-Marduk//Egibi stole a precious Marḫaši stone (abnu murḫašītu), from the forearm of the Lady of Uruk, from the warehouse (bīt šutummu) of Ištar-aḫu-iddin/Innin-šum-uṣur//Nabu-šarhi-ili and hid it in a box. Nabû-lū-dāri, slave of Bāniya/Taribi testified to the event and Hašdāya/Lâbâši-Marduk//Egibi confirmed in the temple assembly (kiništu) the presence of the stone in the house of his father. Seven witnesses and Gimillu/Innin-zēru-iddin, the scribe.
Further Information
- Type and Content
- Statements in court/Depositions
- last updated by
- Małgorzata Sandowicz, July 3, 2025, 10:44 a.m.
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- Holtz 2014