Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 7666
- Museum No.
- BM 114631
- Primary Publication
- Kleber 2008 25
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P552863
- Place of issue
- Uruk city
- Regional setting
- Uruk city
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Neo-Babylonian
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Nbn. 16-VII-16
- Date BCE
- 17/10/540
Digeanna
- Van Driel Files
- 1 b
- Text Form
- Order (i.a., adi ... VERB)
- Legal Purpose
- Conditional Decision (kî +Verb in perfect form)
- Transaction Type
- not applicable
- Domain (Eanna)
- Higher-order management and policies
- Format of the tablet
- landscape
Navico
- Theme
- Labour tasks & work status
- Oblate/Slave Descriptor
- oblate
Content
- Paraphrase
On Nbn.16.VI.17, Šulāya/Gimillu will swear the (following) oath by Sirius (šum ilī ina mul.gag.si.sá ušelli): “From (the yield of) these 12 kurru of arable land that is under the authority of Nabû-aḫḫē-bulliṭ, the Governor of the Sealand (šākin māti), that the oblates (širku) (and) the runners (musaḫḫiru) of the Lady of Uruk have given (nadānu) as their tithe (ešru) to the Lady of Uruk, I have only taken (našû) 5;0 of barley as (my) share in the harvest (as rent) (šibšu).”
If he does not swear the oath, he will pay (nadānu) (the yield of) these 12 kurru of arable land thirtyfold to the Lady of Uruk.
2 witnesses are listed. The scribe is Gimillu/Innin-zēru-iddin, in Uruk.
Further Information
- created by
- Dylan Schimek, April 15, 2026, 11:07 a.m.
- last updated by
- Dylan Schimek, Sept. 30, 2026, 9:47 a.m.
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- Sandowicz 2012