Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 3468
- Museum No.
- YBC 03743
- Primary Publication
- YOS 7 023
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P305101
- Place of issue
- Uruk city
- Regional setting
- Uruk region
- Places mentioned on Tablet
- Bīt-Sîn-karābī-išme
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Early Achaemenid
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Cyr. 02-IX-20+x
- Date BCE
- 12/537
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
Kalbāya/Iqīša (K), rent farmer (ša muḫḫi sūti) of the Lady of Uruk, tells Šulāya/Ṭābia//Ḫunzû, Governor (šākin ṭēmi) of Uruk, Nidinti-Bēl/Nabû-mukīn-zēri//Dābibī, High Priest (šatammu) of Eanna, and Nabû-aḫu-iddin, Royal Overseer (ša rēš šarri bēl piqitti) of Eanna, that he gave 80!;0 dates to Imbia/Nanāya-ēreš//Kidin-Marduk in Cyr. Acc., but got nothing in exchange. The dates are the impost (imittu) of a field in the ‘thousand cubit’ field complex (līmu) at the settlement (tp)Bīt-Sîn-karābī-išme that is part of K’s rentfarm (sūtu), property of the Lady of Uruk, for Cyr. 01.
8 witnesses.
Scribe: Nādinu/Bēl-aḫḫē-iqīša//Egibi (restoration of the patronym based on YOS 7 003: 14 et al.)
- Legacy Paraphrase
Deposition of Kalbāya/Iqīša, rent farmer (ša muhhi šūti) of the Lady of Uruk, against Imbiya/Nanāya-ēreš//Kidin-Marduk. The former declared to Šūlāya/Ṭābiya//Ḫunzû, decisive authority (šikin ṭēmi) of Uruk, Nidinti-Bēl/Nabû-mukīn-zēri//Dābibī, bishop (šatammu) of Eanna, Nabû-aḫu-iddin, royal representative (ša rēš šarri) and commissioner (bēl piqitti) of Eanna, that he had given to Imbiya 90 kurru of barley from the estimated yield of a field in the ‘thousand’ (lim) field complex of the estate of Sîn-karābu-išme that pertained to his rent farm, but had never received anything in return. Eight witnesses and Nādinu/Bēl-aḫḫē-iqīša//Egibi, the scribe.
Further Information
- Type and Content
- Statements in court/Depositions
- last updated by
- Julia Giessler, Aug. 1, 2025, 2:52 p.m.
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- Cocquerillat 1968