Tablet YBC 03756

NaBuCCo ID	3913
Museum No.	YBC 03756
CDLI P-Identifier
Place of issue
Type and content	Consecration
Archive
Period	Each
Year BCE	None
Editio princeps	YOS 7 17

Paraphrase	Donatio mortis causa. Free gift of a slave to the temple taking full effect only after the donors die. A1 and A2, his wife, voluntarily (ina hūd libbi) donated (nadānu) B, their slave (qallu), to be a temple-serf (širku) of Ištar. This they do for the preservation of their lives (ana balāṭ napšāti). B will keep serving (palāhu) A1 and A2 as long they are alive, and will be a temple-serf of Ištar only upon their death. course: May Anu and Ištar destruct whoever changes this agreement. Names of 3 witnesses and the scribe. A1= Nabû-ahhē-bulliṭ/Nabû-šumu-ukīn//Šangû-Ninurta, husband of A2; A2= fBulṭāya/Bēl-ušallim//Kurī, wife of A1; B= Ahu-iddin, slave (qallu) of A1 and A2
Transliteration
Babylonian Date (year-month-day):	Cyr. 03-IX-14

Paraphrase

Donatio mortis causa. Free gift of a slave to the temple taking full effect only after the donors die.

A1 and A2, his wife, voluntarily (ina hūd libbi) donated (nadānu) B, their slave (qallu), to be a temple-serf (širku) of Ištar. This they do for the preservation of their lives (ana balāṭ napšāti). B will keep serving (palāhu) A1 and A2 as long they are alive, and will be a temple-serf of Ištar only upon their death.

course: May Anu and Ištar destruct whoever changes this agreement.

Names of 3 witnesses and the scribe.

A1= Nabû-ahhē-bulliṭ/Nabû-šumu-ukīn//Šangû-Ninurta, husband of A2; A2= fBulṭāya/Bēl-ušallim//Kurī, wife of A1; B= Ahu-iddin, slave (qallu) of A1 and A2

Transliteration

Babylonian Date (year-month-day):

Cyr. 03-IX-14