Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 3460
- Museum No.
- YBC 04130
- Primary Publication
- YOS 7 015
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P305442
- Place of issue
- Uruk city
- Regional setting
- Uruk region
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Early Achaemenid
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Cyr. 02-IV(?)-12
- Date BCE
- 14/06/537
Digeanna
- Van Driel Files
- 2 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
Kiribtu/Bābu-ēreš (K) told Nidinti-Bēl/Nabû-mukīn-zēri//Dābibī (NB), High Priest (šatammu) of Eanna, and Nabû-aḫu-iddin (NAI), Royal Overseer (ša rēš šarri bēl piqitti) of Eanna, that he was hired (ana idi abāku) by Šamaš-iddin/Nabû-nādin-šumi (ŠI), who collected ewes as erbu-income of the Lady of Uruk, bearing the divine ḫuṭāru-staff, but had shorn them in his house and marked them unlawfully (ina sarti) as his own. When ŠI is brought, K will testify against him (kânu D). Innin-pirʼu-uṣur/Ardia//Šangû-Ninurta and Bābu-ēreš/Biruqā, the father of K, stand surety for K towards NB and NAI.
3 witnesses.
Scribe: Balāṭu/Sîn-ibni//Rēʼi-alpi.
- Legacy Paraphrase
Deposition of Kiribtu/Bā’u-ēreš against Šamaš-iddin/Nabû-nādin-šumi. The former testified to Nidinti-Bēl/Nabû-mukīn-zēri//Dābibī, bishop (šatammu) of Eanna, and Nabû-aḫu-iddin, royal representative (ša rēš šarri) and commissioner (bēl piqitti) of Eanna, that the latter had employed him to help collect the ewes of the Lady of Uruk, bearing the Divine Staff (huṭāru), but had shorn them in his own house and branded them with his own mark. His words are confirmed by Innin-līpu-uṣur/Ardiya and Bāba-ēreš/Biruqqâ. Three witnesses and Balāṭu/Sîn-ibni//Rē’û, the scribe.
Further Information
- Type and Content
- Statements in court/Depositions
- last updated by
- Julia Giessler, Aug. 1, 2025, 2:50 p.m.
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- ArOr 4 (1932), 325-348