Basic Metadata

NaBuCCo ID
3471
Museum No.
YBC 07550
Primary Publication
YOS 7 026
CDLI P-Identifier
P308493
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-VIII-23
Date BCE
09/11/536

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 comes up and testifies (kânu D) that Iddia/Ištar-šumu-ēreš (I) accepted (maḫāru) from (ina qātē) Marduk-šumu-uṣur and his sons anything but 3;0 barley, I will pay to Eanna thirtyfold the amount the witness testifies.

5 witnesses, including Silim-ilī*, royal courtier, Keeper of the Royal Box (ša rēš šarri ša muḫḫi quppi).

Scribe: Nabû-mukīn-apli/Marduk-šumu-iddin//Balāṭu

Legacy Paraphrase

Appeal to deposition against Iddiya/Ištar-šumu-ēreš. He is accused of having kept the barley which he had received from Marduk-nādin-aḫi instead of delivering it to the Lady of Uruk. Five witnesses and Nabû-mukīn-apli/Marduk-šumu-iddin//Balāṭu, the scribe.


Further Information

Type and Content
Statements in court/Depositions
last updated by
Małgorzata Sandowicz, July 3, 2025, 11:07 a.m.