Basic Metadata

NaBuCCo ID
3583
Museum No.
YBC 03688
Primary Publication
YOS 7 138
CDLI P-Identifier
P305046
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):
Cam. 03-V-08
Date BCE
19/07/527

Digeanna

Van Driel Files
10 h
Text Form
Protocol (...)
Legal Purpose
Summons (adi ... abāku, alāku)
Transaction Type
transactional (incoming)
Domain (Eanna)
Animal husbandry
Format of the tablet
landscape

Content

Paraphrase

By Cam. 03.VII.1, Arad-Bēl/Šarru-ukīn, chief of flocks (rab būli) in charge of (ša) sheep and goats of Ištar of Uruk, will bring 1000 good-quality tanned (šūkulu) and flayed (ḫalīṣu) sheep skins from the herdsmen under his management (ṣāb qātē). He will deliver them to the treasury of Eanna.

This is apart from his remainders (rēḫu).

3 witnesses.

Scribe: Marduk-nāṣir/Madānu-aḫḫē-iddin//Šigûa.

Legacy Paraphrase

Promissory note. Arad-Bēl/Šarru-ukīn, chief of flocks (rab būli) of sheep of the Eanna, is to collect from the herdsmen under his charge (nāqidāti ṣāb qātišu) 1000 tanned (šūkulu) or scraped (ḫalīṣu) sheepskins. He is deliver them within 2 months to the Eanna treasury. This is over and above the remainder (rēḫānu) owed by him. Three witnesses and Marduk-nāṣir/Madānu-aḫḫē-iddin//Šigû’a, the scribe.


Further Information

Type and Content
Promissory notes ina muẖẖi
last updated by
Małgorzata Sandowicz, June 19, 2025, 11:34 a.m.