Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 3480
- Museum No.
- YBC 04018
- Primary Publication
- YOS 7 035
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P305330
- 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-XI-27
- Date BCE
- 09/02/535
Digeanna
- Van Driel Files
- 2 d
- Text Form
- Protocol (...)
- Legal Purpose
- Dispute-related proceedings (qabû, amāru, abāku)
- Transaction Type
- transactional (incoming)
- Domain (Eanna)
- Higher-order management and policies
- Format of the tablet
- landscape
Content
- Paraphrase
Proceedings regarding three animals marked with a star symbol (kakkabtu) – a ram, a ewe, and a goat – which Gimillu/Innin-šumu-ibni (G1) brought out (aṣû Š) from the house of Gimillu/Šamaš-aḫu-iddin//Ḫunzû (G2). G2 declared that Mušēzib-Bēl/Mušallim-Marduk (MB), Eanna’s herdsman, sold him the goat and deposited (ana piqid paqādu) the other animals with him. As G2 had confessed (eli ramni kânu D) having purchased the temple goat, a thirtyfold penalty was imposed (parāsu N) on him in the assembly (puḫru).
On account of that penalty, Innin-aḫḫē-iddin/Nabû-būnu-šūtur//Ḫunzû (IAI) delivers now (maḫāru) 30 shekels of silver to Eanna on behalf of G2. By the 15th day of m.XII, G2 will present evidence (kânu D) against MM and bring (him) to Eanna. Alternatively, G2 will deliver 60 sheep. IAI guarantees (pūtu našû) for G2.
Written in the presence of Nidinti-Bēl/Nabû-mukīn-zēri//Dābibī, High Priest (šatammu) of Eanna, and Nabû-aḫu-iddin, Royal Overseer (ša rēš šarri bēl piqitti) of Eanna.
4 witnesses.
4 scribes of Eanna (tupšarru ša Eanna): Nādinu, Kināya, Mūrānu, Balāṭu.
- Legacy Paraphrase
Court judgement regarding animals taken from the house of Gimillu/Šamaš-aḫu-iddina//Ḫunzû by Gimillu/Innin-šumu-ibni. The former was found to be in possession of one ram, one ewe, one billy goat, and three small cattle marked with a star (kakkabtu), but justified their presence by testifying that the billy goat had been sold to him by Mušēzib-Bēl/Mušallim-Marduk, herdsman (nāqidu) of Eanna, and the ram and ewe had been placed under his care by the same (ana piqid). He is obliged to pay thirty times the price of the billy goat (1/2 mina) to Innin-aḫḫē-iddina/Nabû-būnu-sūtur//Ḫunzû. Regarding the other animals, Gimillu has until 15 Addaru to pursue a case against Mušēzib-Bēl, if not he has to pay sixty sheep to Eanna. The jury consists of 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, and the four witnesses are respectively from the Rīmānu, Šunāya, Sîn-lēqi-unninni, and Kurī-families, whilst Nādinu, Kīnāya, Murānu, and Balāṭu serve as the scribes of Eanna.
Further Information
- Type and Content
- Court protocols
- last updated by
- Małgorzata Sandowicz, Feb. 20, 2026, 11:15 a.m.