Basic Metadata

NaBuCCo ID
3469
Museum No.
YBC 04099
Primary Publication
YOS 7 024
CDLI P-Identifier
P305411
Place of issue
Uruk city
Regional setting
Uruk region
Places mentioned on Tablet
Uruk city
Archive
Eanna temple
Period
Early Achaemenid
Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
Cyr. 03-V-16
Date BCE
08/05/536

Digeanna

Van Driel Files
1 g
Text Form
Protocol (...)
Legal Purpose
Conditional Decision (kî +Verb in perfect form)
Transaction Type
not applicable
Domain (Eanna)
Higher-order management and policies
Format of the tablet
landscape

Content

Paraphrase

On the day a witness testifies (kânu D) that Nabû-mukīn-zēri/ Nabû-ēṭir-napšāti//Basia (NMZ) sold the barley of the Lady of Uruk or took (našû) it from the Royal Overseer (bēl piqitti) or a plowman (ikkaru) of the Lady of Uruk, NMZ will pay thirtyfold the amount that the witness testifies.

3 witnesses.

Scribe: Gimillu/Innin-zēru-iddin.

Legacy Paraphrase

Appeal to deposition against Nabû-mukīn-zēri/Nabû-ēṭir-napšāti//Basīya. He is supposed to have sold barley belonging to the Lady of Uruk or to have stolen it from a commissioner (bēl piqitti) or farmer (ikkaru). Three witnesses and the scribe, Gimillu/Innin-zēru-iddin.


Further Information

Type and Content
Statements in court/Depositions
last updated by
Małgorzata Sandowicz, July 3, 2025, 11:06 a.m.