Basic Metadata

NaBuCCo ID
7638
Museum No.
PTS 2269
Primary Publication
Kleber 2008 10
CDLI P-Identifier
P470362
Place of issue
Uruk city
Regional setting
Uruk city
Archive
Eanna temple
Period
Neo-Babylonian
Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
Nbn. 08-XII-20
Date BCE
16/03/547

Digeanna

Van Driel Files
1 b
Text Form
Protocol (...)
Legal Purpose
Invalidation of a Document (ḫepâtu/eṭirtu šī  )
Transaction Type
not applicable
Domain (Eanna)
Higher-order management and policies
Formatting remarks
Half of line 21 was erased.
Format of the tablet
landscape

Content

Paraphrase

Šamaš-ana-bītišu/Amēl-Nabû spoke (qabû) the following in front of a group of freemen (mār banî): “On Nbn.08.XII.24/25, in my presence Zēria/Ibnāya//Egibi will pay (eṭēru) Gimillu/Innin-šumu-ibni, the messenger of Nabû-šarru-uṣur, Royal Overseer of Eanna (bēl piqitti), who is responsible for the collection (usirtu) of silver for baked bricks. It is silver that is owed (ina muḫḫi) by the temple enterers (ērib bīti) and the priestly assembly (kiništu) of Eanna.” (The debt note (u’iltu) over) the collection, which was in his possession, is considered destroyed (ḫepû).

The 11 freemen (mār banî) are: Mušēzib-Bēl/Šamaš-udammiq//Eppeš-ilī, Marduk-šumu-iddin/Nabû-aḫḫē-bulliṭ//Balāṭu, Sîn-ereš/Nabû-šumu-līšir//Eppeš-ilī, Madān-aḫḫē-iddin/Gimillu//Šigûa, Nabû-ēṭir-napšāti/Arad-Bēl//Egibi, Kalbāya/Iqīša//Basia, Nabû-mušētiq-uddi/Balāssu//Damqu, Šamaš-šumu-ukīn/Šulāya//Mandidi, Iddin-Nabû/Šākin-šumi//Gimil-Nanaya, Nergal-šumu-iddin/Ina-tēšî-ēṭir//Ḫunzû, Arad-Innin/Ibni-Ištar//Gimil-Nanaya. 

The scribe is Nādinu/Bēl-aḫḫē-iqīša//Egibi, in Uruk.


Further Information

created by
Dylan Schimek, April 13, 2026, 9:53 a.m.
last updated by
Dylan Schimek, Sept. 30, 2026, 9:05 a.m.