Basic Metadata

NaBuCCo ID
3863
Museum No.
W 18209,61
Primary Publication
AUWE 11 228
Place of issue
Babylon city
Regional setting
Babylon region
Archive
Eanna temple
Period
Neo-Babylonian
Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
Nbk. 41-I-16
Date BCE
20/03/564

Digeanna

Van Driel Files
1 f
Text Form
Order (i.a., adi ... VERB)
Legal Purpose
Summons (adi ... abāku, alāku)
Transaction Type
transactional (incoming)
Domain (Eanna)
Higher-order management and policies
Format of the tablet
portrait

Content

Paraphrase

Summons to come to Uruk and settle accounts with the Eanna.

By the 15th of Dûzu (IV) Šumu-ukīn/...//arad ekalli will come to Uruk and draw up (alāku - epēšu) the accounts (nikkassu) for silver that belongs to the Lady of Uruk and is charged against (ina muḫḫi) someone whose identity is lost. In the following lacuna on the obverse of the tablet only the word for priest (šangû) is extant. Rest broken off.

Names of 3+ witnesses and the scribe: Nabû-bāni-aḫi/Marduk-zēru-ibni//Šangû-Šamaš

Witnesses:

Bānia/Tabnea//bā´eru

Šamaš-damiq/Iqīša//rē´û

Kiribtu/Nādinu//Bābūtu

 

Legacy Paraphrase

Summons to come to Uruk and settle accounts with the Eanna.

By the 15th of Dûzu (IV) A will come to Uruk and draw up (alāku - epēšu) the accounts (nikkassu) for silver that belongs to the Lady of Uruk and is charged against (ina muhhi) someone whose identity is lost. In the following lacuna on the obverse of the tablet only the word for priest (šangû) is extant. Rest broken off. Names of 3+ witnesses and the scribe: Nabû-bāni-ahi/Marduk-zēru-ibni//Šangû-Šamaš

A = Šumu-ukīn/…/Itinnu


Further Information

Type and Content
Summonses/Oaths/Injunctions
last updated by
Kira Awege, Jan. 29, 2026, 4:54 p.m.
Imported (Person, Date)
Stephania Ermidoro, Kathleen Abraham (17/09/2023)