Abstract
This paper will focus on a group of individuals at Sippar who have in common that they define themselves, in their seal legends, as servants of the deity Ilabrat. This was shown by D. Charpin (Charpin, Dominique (1990), " Les divinités familiales des Babyloniens d'après les légendes de leurs sceaux-cylindres ", in : mél. Kupper, Liège, p. 59-78) that this last line refers to a private devotion, usually linked to a temple close to the seal-bearers' home. In Sippar-yahrurum, however, there was no Ilabrat temple. Yet there are several dozen instances of individuals describing themselves as servants of this deity.
After examining the nature of the documents in which these seals are found and the social role of individuals who call themselves " serviteurs d'Ilabrat ", we will attempt to understand who is concerned by this devotion and above all what commonalities may exist between individuals " serviteurs " of this divinity. To do this, we will try to highlight one of ARCHIBAB's potentialities, a key tool for solving our problem. We'll show how searching by seal legend can lead to a sufficiently representative corpus, allowing us to understand that we're probably dealing with a group of exiles. The final part of this paper will then aim to explain where these individuals came from and when they settled in Sippar-yahrurum.
