dumu sag an gal-[la?]
sa12-du5 maḫ den-líl
nam-kù-zu níg-nam-ma šu-du7
lú kin-kin-za ḫé-li
in-di-bi ḫé-sa6
a-ga-na ki? še-er-kán <ḫé>-d[u]
ú-ba-lí-su-dAMAR.UTU
dumu ìr-é-a
um-mi-a níg-kas7
ìr ku-ri-gal-zu lugal kiš
eldest daughter of the great An,
chief land registrar of Enlil,
whose wisdom makes everything perfect:
may he who seeks you rejoice,
and may his going be well,
<so that> after he passed by,
the land is well ordered.
Uballissu-Marduk,
son of Arad-Ea,
expert accountant,
servant of Kurigalzu, king of the world.
Uballissu-Marduk, inscribed ú-ba-lí-su-dAMAR.UTU, meaning “Marduk has kept him alive,” was a Babylonian accountant (niğkas) who rose to the rank of administrator (sanqu) in the Kassite government of Kurigalzu II, ca. 1332-1308 BC short chronology, whose principal sources are his two cylinder seals which detail his religious affiliations and his illustrious genealogy.
The earlier of his seals (pictured) is a chalcedony cylinder seal with eleven lines of text and one line of five insects. It provides a prayer to the goddess Ninsun and gives his position as “expert accountant.” His other cylinder seal, lists four generations of his ancestors of which Arad-Ea “scholar of accounting” (Sumerian: ummia niğkas) is the first. His father, Uššur-ana-Marduk, had been gá-dub-ba é-[kur?], governor of Nippur, his grandfather, Usi-ana-nuri-?, GIR3.NITA2kurdilmunki-a, “regent” or “viceroy” of Dilmun, ancient Bahrain.