Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 3060
- Museum No.
- BM 60353
- Primary Publication
- Archive
- Later Ebabbar temple
- Period
- Early Achaemenid
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- XXX. yy-XII-dd
Content
- Paraphrase
Heading: The temple drew up (epēšu) the accounts (nikkassu) with (itti) A, the overseer of the bakers (šāpiru ša nuhatimmī) for the dates it issued in order to pay (ina) the wages to priests (pappasu) who served as bakers (nuhatimmūtu) in the months … (broken, perhaps Ulūl (VI)?), Abu (V) and Kislīm (IX) of the 1st regnal year of Darius.
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Details: 2129 measures (mašīhu) taken from (ultu) the depot (kalakku),
… (broken) taken from (ultu) Babylon,
… (broken) dates from before (lapāni) B,
… (broken) dates ina amēlūti (wr. ina lú-tú, uncl.),
… 2525 measures for the prebendary income (pappasu, reconstructed) of Abu (V) and Ulūl (VI), were given (nadānu, sum.na) to (ana) A.
Endnote: The document also records that 725 measures were given (nadānu, wr. sum.na) to (ana) A as part of (ina) the allotment of sacrificial commodities (maššartu) for Nisan (I) of the 2nd year.
A= Nabû-aplu-iddin, the overseer of the bakers (šāpiru ša nuhatimmī, Bongenaar 1997, 182); B=[…]-līšir-[…]