Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 3895
- Museum No.
- YBC 04071
- Primary Publication
- YOS 17 009
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P305383
- Place of issue
- Uruk city
- Regional setting
- Uruk region
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Neo-Babylonian
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Nbk. 43-V-15
- Date BCE
- 28/08/562
Digeanna
- Van Driel Files
- 3 f
- Text Form
- Debt note ("promissory note") (uˀiltu; ina muḫḫi; ina pāni)
- Legal Purpose
- Hire (ana …ūti ina pāni, našpartu alāku, ana idi nadānu, dullu epēšu)
- Transaction Type
- transactional (incoming)
- Domain (Eanna)
- Personnel management and labor allocation
- Format of the tablet
- landscape
Content
- Paraphrase
Ḫanināya, an oblate (širkatu) of the Lady of Uruk, is at the disposal of Aššur-māt-tuqqin/Nabûa-ili’s (AMT). AMT will pay per year 2 shekels of silver of 1/8 alloy to Sîn-iddin, the Royal Resident (qīpu) of Eanna.
6 witnesses and the scribe Ištar-zēru-ibni/Šulāya
Notes
Drafted in the presence of Sîn-iddin
- Legacy Paraphrase
Hiring of a female temple-serf by a private individual.
fA, a female temple-serf (širkātu) of the Lady-of-Uruk is put at the disposal (ina pāni ušuzzu) of B.
B will pay 2 shekels of silver of 1/8 alloy per shekel yearly to C, the royal resident (qīpu) of Eanna.
The tablet is drafted in the presence of C. Names of 6 witnesses and the scribe.
fA= fḪanināya, a temple-serf (širku) of the Lady-of-Uruk; B= Aššur-māt-tuqqin/Nabûa-ili; C= Sîn-iddin, royal resident (qīpu) of Eanna
Further Information
- last updated by
- Sarah Grosser, Jan. 30, 2026, 10:50 a.m.
- Imported (Person, Date)
- Yuval Levavi, Kathleen Abraham (10/09/2023)
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- YOS 17