Basic Metadata

NaBuCCo ID
3589
Museum No.
YBC 04127
Primary Publication
YOS 7 144
CDLI P-Identifier
P305439
Place of issue
Uruk city
Regional setting
Uruk region
Archive
Eanna temple
Period
Early Achaemenid
Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
Cam. 04-IV-21
Date BCE
21/07/526

Digeanna

Van Driel Files
1 e
Text Form
Order (i.a., adi ... VERB)
Legal Purpose
Summons (adi ... abāku, alāku)
Transaction Type
not applicable
Domain (Eanna)
Higher-order management and policies
Format of the tablet
landscape

Content

Paraphrase

(f)Tabluṭ/Marduk-erība ((f)T) guarantees to Nabû-mukīn-apli (NMA), High Priest (šatammu) of Eanna, and Nabû-aḫu-iddin (NAI), Royal Overseer (ša rēš šarri bēl piqitti) of Eanna, for her husband Gimillu/Innin-šumu-uṣur (G), who is apprehended (ṣabātu) in Eanna for outstanding dues (rēḫu) of the Lady of Uruk. On the day that G is summoned by NMA and NAI, she will bring him (abāku) and hand him over (nadānu). If G flees (literary: goes elsewhere), (f)T will pay (eṭēru) his outstanding dues to the treasury of Eanna.

Written in the presence of NMA and NAI.

2 witnesses.

Scribe: Arad-Marduk/Marduk-šumu-iddin//Bēl-aplu-uṣur.

Legacy Paraphrase

Presentation of accused. The woman Ṭabluṭu/Marduk-uballiṭ guarantees to Nabû-mukīn-apli, bishop (šatammu) of Eanna, and Nabû-aḫu-iddin, royal representative (ša rēš šarri) and commissioner (bēl piqitti) of Eanna, for her husband Gimillu/Innin-šumu-uṣur, who had been arrested on account of an outstanding remainder (rēḫu) (of animals, presumably) owed to Eanna. He is now under her supervision and she will present him when he is summoned. If he flees, she will pay for him. Two witnesses and Arad-Marduk/Marduk-šumu-iddin//Bēl-aplu-uṣur, the scribe.


Further Information

Type and Content
Summonses/Oaths/Injunctions
last updated by
Julia Giessler, July 17, 2025, 2:43 p.m.
Mentioned in the following publication(s)
AJSL 46 (1930), 73-103