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
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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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