Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 3864
- Museum No.
- W 18213,21
- Primary Publication
- AUWE 11 229
- Place of issue
- Uruk city
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Neo-Babylonian
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Nbk. 33-XII-10
- Date BCE
- 01/03/571
Digeanna
- Van Driel Files
- 1 e
- Legal Purpose
- unclear (...)
- Transaction Type
- unclear
- Format of the tablet
- landscape
Content
- Paraphrase
Undetermined legal text. Very fragmentary.
Only the first lines of the obverse are still readable: they mention a date, the 20th of Addar, and the individuals involved in the deal. These are: Bania/Nabû-zēru-ušabši, an unnamed freedwoman (zakītu) of the Lady of Uruk, her/his 2 full-grown daughters(*), and “the associates” (itbāru). Rest broken off.
On the reverse, only a list of 3+ witnesses is extant, with the name of the scribe: Šamaš-šumu-ukīn, son of Nabû-šumu-iddin.
Witnesses:
Mušēzib-Bēl/Aplā//Arrabtu
.../Šumâ//Iddin-Papsukkal
Šamaš-damiq/Iqīša//rē´û
Note
(*) itbaru is in feminine plural, this would suggest a reading “daughters” hence perhaps read [u x] ˹DUMU.MÍŠ˺-šú although Gehlken’s copy has “DUMU” sons. Needs collation.
- Legacy Paraphrase
Undetermined legal text. Very fragmentary.
Only the first lines of the obverse are still readable: they mention a date, the 20th of Addar, and the individuals involved in the deal. These are: A, an unnamed freedwoman (zakītu) of the Lady of Uruk, her/his 2 full-grown daughters(*), and “the associates” (itbāru). Rest broken off. On the reverse, only a list of 3+ witnesses is extant, with the name of the scribe: Šamaš-šumu-ukīn/Nabû-šumu-iddin.
(*) itbaru is in feminine plural, this would suggest a reading “daughters” hence perhaps read [u x] ˹DUMU.MÍŠ˺-šú although Gehlken’s copy has “DUMU” sons. Needs collation.
A = Bania/Nabû-zēru-ušabši
Further Information
- Type and Content
- Indeterminate legal texts
- last updated by
- Kira Awege, Jan. 9, 2026, 9:20 a.m.
- Imported (Person, Date)
- Stephania Ermidoro, Kathleen Abraham (17/09/2023)