Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 6145
- Museum No.
- HMA 9-02503
- Primary Publication
- UCP 9/2 36
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P248230
- Place of issue
- Babylon city
- Regional setting
- Uruk region
- Places mentioned on Tablet
- Uruk city
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Neo-Babylonian
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Nbn. 00-II-10[+x]
- Inferred date
- 555-539
Digeanna
- Van Driel Files
- 3 d
- Text Form
- Order (i.a., adi ... VERB)
- Legal Purpose
- Summons (adi ... abāku, alāku)
- Transaction Type
- not applicable
- Domain (Eanna)
- Higher-order management and policies
- Format of the tablet
- landscape
Content
- Paraphrase
In m.IV Zēria/Balāssu//Dannēa (Z) shall go (alāku) to Uruk. There, people will show (kullumu) him and his wife (f)Esagil-Bēlit ((f)EB) the writing boards (lēʼu) of the Lady of Uruk, in which oblates are recorded and the remainders (rēḫu) of sheep, cattle, barley and dates, which are due from Silim-Bēl/Aplāya (SB). When they have shown them (the entries in) the writing board concerning the oblate status of SB and remainders due from him, the slave sale contract (ṭuppi amēlūti) of his wife, which SB issued, sealed and gave to (f)EB, will be considered invalid (ḫepû). The slave sale contract and the wife of SB shall then belong to the Lady of Uruk. Else, if they don’t show it, the wife of SB will belong to (f)EB.
4 witnesses.
Scribe: Šumāya/[...]
It is not clear whether SB is the same person as the identically named chief of ten (rab ešerti), see Janković (PhD): 83. Z is probably identical with Zēria/Balāssu//Dannēa (BM 30454, Babylon, Ner. 02).
- Transliteration
- https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/balt/P248230
Further Information
- created by
- Julia Giessler, Nov. 3, 2025, 1:18 p.m.
- last updated by
- Julia Giessler, May 22, 2026, 4:26 p.m.