Basic Metadata

NaBuCCo ID
4705
Museum No.
YBC 07393
Primary Publication
YOS 6 122
CDLI P-Identifier
P305077
Place of issue
Uruk city
Regional setting
Uruk region
Archive
Eanna temple
Period
Neo-Babylonian
Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
Nbn. 09-IX-09
Date BCE
01/12/547

Digeanna

Van Driel Files
1 g
Text Form
Protocol (...)
Legal Purpose
Conditional Decision (kî +Verb in perfect form)
Transaction Type
transactional (incoming)
Domain (Eanna)
Higher-order management and policies
Format of the tablet
landscape

Content

Paraphrase

On the day a witness (mukinnu) or an accuser (bātiqu) comes up and testifies that Lūšummu/Nabû-zēru-ibni, a man from (tp)Yašūbu, fished illegally (ana šigilti) in the irrigation district (tamirtu) of the Lady of Uruk near the royal canal (nār šarri) (and) illegally took away willow wood, poplar wood (ṣarbatu), reeds (qanû) and twigs (ḫuṣabu) from the fields, forest, and irrigation district of the Lady of Uruk, he will make restitution thirtyfold to the Lady of Uruk.

In the presence of Nabû-šarru-uṣur, the Royal Overseer of the Eanna (ša rēš šarri bēl piqitti). 

3 witnesses and the scribe: Ištar-mukīn-apli/Innin-zēru-ušēbši

2 witnesses are also scribes of the Eanna: Nādin/Bēl-aḫḫē-iqīša//Egibi, Mušēzib-Marduk/Bēl-uballiṭ//Amīl-Ea (ṭupšar Eanna)

Notes

YOS 6 148 is a similar document written by the same scribe accusing a certain Nergal-nūri, an oblate of Nergal, and an Egyptian.


Further Information

created by
Marie Young, May 27, 2025, 7:52 a.m.
last updated by
Marie Young, April 21, 2026, 11:55 a.m.
Mentioned in the following publication(s)
Holtz 2009
YOS 6