Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 3896
- Museum No.
- NCBT 176
- Primary Publication
- JCS 36 7
- Place of issue
- Uruk city
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Early Neo-Babylonian
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Kan. 06-VI-14
Content
- Paraphrase
Hiring of a women (possibly a female temple-serf) by a private individual.
fA is at the disposal (ina pāni) of B1 and B2 (probably fA’s brother).
B1 and B2 will deliver 2 blankets (túgkur.rameš) yearly to Ištar-of-Uruk and Nanāya (in compensation).
The tablet is drafted in the presence of C, the royal resident (qīpu) of Uruk and Eanna. Names of 6 witnesses and the scribe.
The tablet resembles hiring contracts such as YOS 17, 9, though the family relation between fA and B2 may point to a personal rather than a business context: the woman is put in the care of her brother.
fA= fIlat-x/Eanna-ibni (probably sister of B2); B1= Iqīšāya/Marduk-šarrani; B2= Ṣillāya/Eanna-ibni (probably fA’s brother); C= Šamaš-ilia, royal resident (qīpu) of Uruk and Eanna
Further Information
- Type and Content
- Hiring
- Imported (Person, Date)
- Yuval Levavi, Kathleen Abraham (10/09/2023)
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- JCS 36/1 (1984), 1-63