Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 7162
- Museum No.
- CST 007
- Primary Publication
- Knopf, Diss. 122
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P462212
- Place of issue
- Uruk city
- Regional setting
- Uruk region
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Early Achaemenid
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Cam. 5-III-7
- Date BCE
- 26/05/525
Digeanna
- Text Form
- Protocol (...)
- Legal Purpose
- Guarantee (pūt ... našû, pūt šēpē ... našû)
- Transaction Type
- not applicable
- Domain (Eanna)
- Animal husbandry
- Format of the tablet
- landscape
Navico
- Theme
- Mobility
- Oblate/Slave Role
- Is sold (slave) (passive)
Content
- Paraphrase
The oblates (širku) Dannu-aḫḫēšu-ibni/Nabû-erība, Balāṭu/Nabû-gāmil and Nanaya-ēreš/Guzānu state with respect to one donkey that was sent on campaign with the king together with other donkeys to accompany the (Urukean) levy (kanšu): Širiktu/Zēria, and Arad-Nanaya/Innin-zēru-ušabši have sold it in the land of the Mambugeans (vel sim: ina° kur.ma-am°-bu-gu-a.m[eš]. Dannu-aḫḫēšu-ibni and Nanaya-ēreš assume warranty for the statement (pūt mukinnūti našû).
Written in Uruk. Scribe: Šamaš-zēru-iddin/Aḫulap-Ištar//Ekur-zākir.
This may be connected to Cambyses’ Egyptian campaign.
See Zadok, Studia Mesopotamica 5 (2021), 292-294, for a discussion. He suggests to connect the place name Mambugu with Neo-Assyrian Nampigi, modern Manbij, in NW Syria.
Further Information
- created by
- Michael Jursa, Feb. 14, 2026, 4:42 p.m.
- last updated by
- Michael Jursa, April 22, 2026, 8:17 p.m.
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- Studia Mesopotamica 5 (2021), 241-369