Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 3530
- Museum No.
- YBC 03823
- Primary Publication
- YOS 7 085
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P305181
- Place of issue
- Takkīru
- Regional setting
- Uruk region
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Early Achaemenid
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Cyr. 08-X-05
- Date BCE
- 25/12/531
Digeanna
- Van Driel Files
- 2 b
- Text Form
- Protocol (...)
- Legal Purpose
- Injunction ((lā /ul) … VERB (present form))
- Transaction Type
- not applicable
- Domain (Eanna)
- Agriculture
- Format of the tablet
- landscape
Content
- Paraphrase
7 men swear by Bēl, Nabû and the majesty (adê) of Cyrus, not to pasture animals of the bow makers (sasinnu) on the land of Ištar of Uruk, belonging to the rent (sūtu) of Ardia/Nabû-bān-aḫi//Rēmūt-Ea. Non-compliance will result in the king’s punishment (ḫīṭu clause), and their animals will be confiscated and marked as property of Ištar of Uruk. These 7 men are: Nabû-ēṭir/Rēmūtu, the bow maker, Bēl-ēṭir/Nanāya-aḫu-iddin, Amīl-Nanāya/Gimillu, Kalbāya/Innin-zēru-ibni, Zēria/Erībāya, Lâbâši/Nabû-[…]-ibni*, Šamaš-ēreš/Nabû-ušebši*.
3 witnesses.
Scribe: Itti-Nabû-balāṭu/ Tabnēa//Ur-Nanna (literally:
-Nanna). Collations: Magdalene, Wells, Wunsch (2019)
- Legacy Paraphrase
Oath of Nabû-ēṭir/Rēmūtu, Bēl-ēṭir/Nanāya-aḫu-iddin, Amēl-Nanāya/Gimillu, Kalbāya/Ištar-zēru-iddin, Zēriya/Ēribāya, Lâbâši/Nabû-[…], and Šamaš-ēriš/Rēmūt-ili. They swear by the gods and the adê of the king that they have not allowed their herds of sheep and cattle or their donkeys to graze in the fields belonging to Eanna, which are under the general farm (sūtu) of Ardiya/Nabû-bān-aḫi//Rēmūt-Ea. Four witnesses and Itti-Nabû-balāṭu/Tabnēa//Ur-Nanna, the scribe.
Further Information
- Type and Content
- Statements in court/Deposition
- last updated by
- Julia Giessler, June 5, 2025, 8:32 a.m.
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- Sandowicz 2012