Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 3913
- Museum No.
- YBC 03756
- CDLI P-Identifier
- Place of issue
- Uruk city
- Type and Content
- Consecrations
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Dossier
- None
- Period
- Each
- Year BCE
- None
- Editio princeps
- YOS 7
Content
- 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
further information
- Imported (Person, Date)
- Yuval Levavi, Kathleen Abraham (11/09/2023)
- Legacy NaBuCCo ID
- None