Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 3914
- Museum No.
- AO 6827
- Primary Publication
- TCL 12 036
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P387101
- Place of issue
- Uruk city
- Regional setting
- Uruk region
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Neo-Babylonian
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Nbk. 17-IX-19
- Date BCE
- 19/12/578
Digeanna
- Text Form
- Contract (various verbs)
- Legal Purpose
- Pledge (promise) (various verbs in the present form)
- Transaction Type
- transactional (incoming)
- Domain (Eanna)
- Personnel management and labor allocation
- Format of the tablet
- landscape
Navico
- Theme
- Labour tasks & work status
- Oblate/Slave Role
- Is dedicated (oblate) (passive)
Content
- Paraphrase
Iqīšāya/Šumu-iddin transfers (kanāku nadānu) {f}Nanāya-silim, his slave (qallatu), and her children to {f}Karanātu (K), his wife. They shall serve (palāḫu) K during her lifetime and then be dedicated (zakītu) to the temple. A curse formula invoking Ištar and Nanāya against whoever may alter the document follows.
In the presence(?) of Erība-Marduk, the City Governor (šākin ṭēmi), and Nabû-aḫḫē-iddin, the High Pries (šatammu) of Eanna, 4 witnesses and the scribe, KU-?/Nergal-nāṣir
- Legacy Paraphrase
Free gift + consecration.
A man gives to his wife his slave-woman, who will later become a zakītu-woman.
A voluntarily (ina hūd libbi) gives fB, his slave woman, and her children, to fC, his wife.
fB and her children will serve fC as long as she lives. Once fC dies, fB will become a zakītu-woman of the Lady-of-Uruk and Nanāya and so no governor (šakin māti), overseer (šāpiru), commander-of-ten (rab ešerti) or commander-of-fifty (rab hanšê) shall claim control over her.
May Ištar and Nanāya decree the destruction of whoever alters this agreement.
At the sealing of this document (kunukku)*, sealed in the days of D1, the governor (šākin ṭēmi) of Uruk, and D2, the temple administrator (šatammu) of Eanna (and presumably at in their presence).
Names of 3 witnesses and the scribe.
* This clause usually presents one or two high officials in whose presence the tablet was drafted. It is unclear whether the reference do the “days” of these two officials has a specific meaning, or whether this can be seen as a scribal error.
A= Iqīšāya/Nādin-šumi, husband of fC; fB= fNanāya-silim, slave and a zakītu-woman; fC= fKarantu, wife of A; D1= Erība-Marduk, governor (šākin ṭēmi) of Uruk; D2= Nabû-ahhē-iddin, temple administrator (šatammu) of Eanna
Further Information
- Type and Content
- Free gifts
- last updated by
- Matthias Adelhofer, March 19, 2026, 9:32 a.m.
- Imported (Person, Date)
- Yuval Levavi, Kathleen Abraham (11/09/2023)
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- TCL 12