Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 3610
- Museum No.
- YBC 06908
- Primary Publication
- YOS 7 165
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P307923
- 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. 04-V-24
- Date BCE
- 23/08/526
Digeanna
- Van Driel Files
- 1 b
- Text Form
- Protocol (...)
- Legal Purpose
- Pledge (promise) (various verbs in the present form)
- Transaction Type
- transactional (outgoing)
- Domain (Eanna)
- Storehouse management and allocation of staples
- Format of the tablet
- landscape
Content
- Paraphrase
Nabû-aḫḫē-bulliṭ/[…] (NAB) swears by Bēl, Nabû, and the majesty (adê) of Cambyses that he will not issue any orders (šapāru) regarding the barley that was issued (lit. measured) for flour for the royal meal and given to Nabû-aḫu-iddin, by the order (šipirtu) of Itti-Nabû-balāṭu, the Aramaic scribe (sepīru) of Diḫummu, rent farmer (ša muḫḫi sūti). NAB will neither take the barley nor engage in fraud (niklu nakālu) to get hold of it.
3 witnesses.
Scribe: Nādinu/Bēl-aḫḫē-iqīša//Egibi.
- Legacy Paraphrase
Oath of Nabu-aḫḫē-bulliṭ/[PN]. He swears by the gods and the adê of the king to Nabû-aḫu-iddin, royal representative (ša rēš šarri) and commissioner (bēl piqitti) of Eanna, that he delivered the barley, measured at the order of Itti-Nabû-balāṭu, parchment scribe (sēpiru) of Diḫummu, gathered for the king's table (naptanu) to Nabû-aḫu-iddin. Three witnesses and Nādinu/Bēl-aḫḫē-iqīša//Egibi, the scribe.
Further Information
- Type and Content
- Summonses/Oaths/Injunctions
- last updated by
- Małgorzata Sandowicz, June 21, 2025, 8:34 p.m.