Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 7378
- Museum No.
- YBC 03746
- Primary Publication
- YOS 6 151
- CDLI P-Identifier
- https://cdli.earth/P30510
- Place of issue
- Uruk city
- Regional setting
- Uruk region
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Neo-Babylonian
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Nbn. 10-XI-13
- Date BCE
- 30/07/546
Digeanna
- Van Driel Files
- 12 a
- Text Form
- Protocol (...)
- Legal Purpose
- Issue (nadin)
- Transaction Type
- not applicable
- Domain (Eanna)
- Personnel management and labor allocation
- Format of the tablet
- landscape
Content
- Paraphrase
Issue concerning the mustering of archers.
The text opens with a list of the chiefs of ten (rab ešerti):
Ibni-Ištar/Nabû-aḫḫē-šullim
Nergal-šumu-ibni/Aḫḫēšāya
Iqīša/Nanāya-ēreš
Mukkêa/Marduk
Nabû-mušētiq-uddi/Nabû-šumu-iddin
Nādinu/Ea-mušallim
Nabû-nāṣir/Lāqīp
and Nergal-nāṣir/Bēl-aḫḫē-erība
They are required to levy (dekû) seventy archers of the shepherds (qašti ša rē’i) of the Lady of Uruk by the (tp)Tigris and to deliver them by the 20th of m.V at the (tp)Tigris to Zēr-kitti-līšir/Nergal-mušallim, chief of the archers (rab qašti).
Any man who fails to present his archer at the outpost (bīt kādi) before the 20th of m.V and to perform the king’s watch, non-compliance will result in the king’s punishment (ḫīṭu clause).
In the presence of Nabû-šarru-uṣur, the Royal Overseer (ša rēš šarri bēl piqitti). 5 witnesses and the scribe: Nādinu/Bēl-aḫḫē-iqīša//Egibi
Note:
The fourth witness is a scribe of Eanna: Šumāya/Ibni-Ištar//Ašlāku
Further Information
- created by
- Kira Awege, March 12, 2026, 10:14 a.m.
- last updated by
- Sarah Grosser, June 18, 2026, 3:22 p.m.