Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 7648
- Museum No.
- PTS 2117
- Primary Publication
- Kleber 2008 20
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P470213
- Place of issue
- Bit-Hahhūru
- Regional setting
- Babylon region
- Places mentioned on Tablet
- Upiya
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Neo-Babylonian
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Nbk. 18-VI-09
- Date BCE
- 20/09/587
Digeanna
- Van Driel Files
- 3 e
- Text Form
- Order (i.a., adi ... VERB)
- Legal Purpose
- Injunction ((lā /ul) … VERB (present form))
- Transaction Type
- not applicable
- Domain (Eanna)
- Personnel management and labor allocation
- Format of the tablet
- landscape
Content
- Paraphrase
Gimillu/Ṣillāya and Gimillu/Balāssu will levy (dekû) 30 bowmen (ṣābē qašti). They will bring them (on) VI.26 in (tp)Upiya to the man of the big fortress (kummu). If they don’t bring (them), and they don’t come to the aid (ayyalu) of Bēl and the king, (then…) (the punishment clause is not written out in full).
5 witnesses are listed. The scribe is Innin-zēru-ušabši/Balāssu, in (tp)Bīt-Ḫaḫḫūru.
Note 1: Concerning the translation of é.nun = kummu as “fortress” (“Burg, Festung”), see Kleber (2008, p. 215).
Note 2: The text was assigned to the Eanna archive by Kleber (2008, p. 216) based on the prosopography of the witnesses.
Further Information
- created by
- Dylan Schimek, April 13, 2026, 11:01 a.m.
- last updated by
- Dylan Schimek, Sept. 30, 2026, 10:21 a.m.