Basic Metadata

NaBuCCo ID
3099
Museum No.
BM 74978
CDLI P-Identifier
Place of issue
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Type and Content
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Archive
Later Ebabbar temple
Dossier
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Period
Each
Year BCE
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Editio princeps

Content

Paraphrase

The document records 3 transactions. Each time the Ebabbar temple issued (nadānu, wr. sum.na) barley to (ana) the prebendary bakers (nuhatimmu) and to A, their overseer (šāpiru).

The 1st disbursement consists of:  

399 measures (mašīhu) 0;0.3 kor (18 liter) of barley, (issued for?) the regular offerings of Intercalary Addar (XIIb) under the prebendary bakers’ care.*

17 half (mišlu) measures, massusu (wr. ma-as-su-su, uncl.) of Intercalary Addar and

5 measures 0;0.4 kor (24 liter) of barley, (for) the transportation costs (gimru).

Date (of recording/disbursement?): Intercalary Addar (XIIb), accession year of Darius.

As for the sesame (kunāšu) (for?)* the offerings of Intercalary Addar: A! (already) withdrew it (našû, wr. giš?┐).

The 2nd disbursement consists of:

199+ (partly broken number) measures (mašīhu) 0;0.2 kor (16 liter) of barley (issued for?) the regular offerings of Addar (XII) under the prebendary bakers’ care* and

5 measures, (for) the transportation (gimru) from (ultu) the storehouse (bīt makkūri).

Date (of recording/disbursement?): Intercalary Addar (XIIb), accession year of Darius.

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The 3rd disbursement consists of:

56 measures and 0;0.2 kor (12 liter) of barley to (ina) prepare the regular offerings of Nisan (I) in the first regnal year (of Darius). 

Date (of recording/disbursement?): 24th of Addar in the accession year of Darius.

As for the … (broken amount) in measures of sesame (for the offerings?) till the end of Addar (XII): it is with (ša) A in (ina) the house of x x .

 

(*)Note the terse formula “barley/sesame sattuk nuhatimmūti ša month-so-and-so” (1st-2nd disbursements). Alternative interpretations are possible, e.g. barley/sesame from the allotment of month-so-and-so for the regular offerings under the prebendary bakers’ care.

 

A= Nabû-aplu-iddin, overseer of the bakers (šāpiru ša nuhatimmī, Bongenaar 1997, 182)

Transliteration
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Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
Dar. yy-XII-dd

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