Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 3586
- Museum No.
- YBC 03702
- Primary Publication
- YOS 7 141
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P305060
- 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-10
- Date BCE
- 21/07/527
Digeanna
- Van Driel Files
- 2 e
- 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
[…]/Ištar-zēru-ibni is accused of accepting branded sheep from the herdsmen of the Lady of Uruk in exchange for silver or payments in kind (šugarrû) in years Cam. 01–Cam. 03. Should a witness confirm (kânu D) it, […] will compensate the sheep’s value thirtyfold.
Written in the presence of Nabû-aḫu-iddin, Royal Overseer (ša rēš šarri bēl piqitti) of Eanna.
2 witnesses.
Scribe: Arad-Marduk/Marduk-šumu-iddin//Bēl-aplu-uṣur.
- Legacy Paraphrase
Conditional verdict against [PN]/Ištar-zēru-ibni for having taken star-marked (kakkabtu) sheep from the herdsmen, for money or as a gift (šugarrû; i.e., for payment in kind). Should a pertinent witness come forward, the guilty man will have to reimburse the animal’s value thirtyfold. This is witnessed by Nabû-aḫu-iddin, royal representative (ša rēš šarri) and commissioner (bēl piqitti) of Eanna. Two further witnesses and Arad-Marduk/Marduk-šumu-iddin//Bēl-aplu-uṣur, the scribe.
Further Information
- Type and Content
- Court protocols
- last updated by
- Małgorzata Sandowicz, June 19, 2025, 11:50 a.m.