Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 3879
- Museum No.
- BM 061279
- Primary Publication
- Cyr. 281
- Place of issue
- Sippar city
- Archive
- Later Ebabbar temple
- Period
- Early Achaemenid
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- XXX. 07-XII-03
Content
- Paraphrase
Guarantee for the release of an imprisoned temple-serf.
B, the chief priest (šangû) of Sippar handcuffed (semuru nadû) A, the temple-serf (širku) of Šamaš, in the storehouses (bīt karê).
Now, C, the temple-serf of Šamaš, guarantees (pūtu našû) for A before (ina qātē) B in (ina) the assembly (puhru) of the temple enterers (ērib bīti) of Šamaš, the scribes (ṭupšarru), and the city elders (šību), and he (= B) releases (|paṭāru) A from his fetters.
If A will go (alāku) somewhere else, C will have to carry out his work (dullu epēšu), on top of (ana muhhi) his own work.
Names of 3 witnesses and the scribe.
A= Bēl-ēṭer-Šamaš, temple-serf (širku) of Šamaš; B= Marduk-šumu-iddin, chief priest (šangû) of Sippar; C= Šamaš-dīni-ēpuš, temple-serf (širku) of Šamaš
Further Information
- Type and Content
- Legal - Other
- last updated by
- Dylan Schimek, March 10, 2026, 1:17 p.m.
- Imported (Person, Date)
- Yuval Levavi, Kathleen Abraham (07/09/2023)
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- Cyr.