Basic Metadata

NaBuCCo ID
3854
Museum No.
W 18239,15
Primary Publication
AUWE 11 219
Place of issue
Uruk city
Regional setting
Uruk region
Archive
Eanna temple
Period
Neo-Babylonian
Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
Nbk. yy-XI-06

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

Undertaking to meet an obligation. Fragmentary.

From the 6th of Addar (XII) to the 10th of Simān (III) of Nabuchadnezar’s [x] regnal year, .../Bēl-na’id, descendant of ... will … (verb lost) (to?) the holder of his prior claims (uškû) Kī-Šamaš and ..., temple oblates (širku) of […]. On the 10th of Simān (III) he will bring along (abāku) the … and (hand it/them over?) to ..., the courtier (ša rēš šarri), and to the […] of the Eanna. Should he fail to bring along and deliver (nadānu) what he must, then […].

The consequences are lost in a gap on the tablet. The witnesses list is broken, scribe: Šamaš-MU-…

 

Legacy Paraphrase

Undertaking to meet an obligation. Fragmentary.

From the 6th of Addar (XII) to the 10th of Simān (III) of Nabuchadnezar’s [x] regnal year, A will … (verb lost) (to?) the holder of his prior claims (uškû) B1 and fB2, temple oblates (širku) of […]. On the 10th of Simān (III) he will bring along (abāku) the … and (hand it/them over?) to C, the courtier (ša rēš šarri), and to the […] of the Eanna. Should he fail to bring along and deliver (nadānu) what he must, then […]. The consequences are lost in a gap on the tablet. The witnesses list is broken, scribe: Šamaš-MU-…

A = broken name/Bēl-na’id//broken name; B1 = Kī-Šamaš; fB2 = broken name; C = broken name, courtier (ša rēš šarri)


Further Information

Type and Content
Indeterminate legal texts
last updated by
Kira Awege, Jan. 29, 2026, 4:33 p.m.
Imported (Person, Date)
Stephania Ermidoro, Kathleen Abraham (17/09/2023)