Basic Metadata

NaBuCCo ID
3237
Museum No.
NBC 04886
Primary Publication
YOS 17 045
CDLI P-Identifier
P297908
Place of issue
No place
Regional setting
Uruk region
Places mentioned on Tablet
Biranatu
Kirāti
Naṣībāta
Qatnu
Rāṭu
Til-hurāṣi
Archive
Eanna temple
Period
Neo-Babylonian
Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
Nbk. 02-I-27
Date BCE
17/04/603

Digeanna

Van Driel Files
9 b
Text Form
List (various verbs, or also no verb)
Legal Purpose
Administrative receipt ((ina qātē) maḫir; eṭir; also 'no verb')
Transaction Type
transactional (incoming)
Domain (Eanna)
Agriculture
Format of the tablet
landscape

Content

Paraphrase

List of impost (imittu) received in barley and spelt:

480;0 of barley, the impost from the ploughmen (ikkaru) of the irrigation district (tamirtu) of (tp)Til-hurāṣi:

  • 220;0 of barley, the impost of Nabû-lē'i/Zībi
  • 160;0 (of barley) the impost (imittu) of Bēlšunu/Nabû-ušēzib
  • 100;0 of Rēmūtu/Amīl-Bēl 

68;0 of barley and spelt, the impost of the sharecroppers (errešu):

  • 44;0 of Apkallu, the sharecropper (errešu).
  • 2;0 of Nergal-iddin/Nabû-zēru-līšir.
  • 10;0 of Nabû-nāṣir/Nabû-....
  • 12;0 of Bēlšunu/Nabû-....

3221;0 from the irrigation district of (tp)Ḫuṣṣê, 1685;0 from (tp)Naṣībāta, 1493;0 from (tp)Ṭuranu?(Or Qatna?), 495;0 from (tp)Biranatu and Rāṭu, 2462;0 from (tp)Kirāti, 1003;0 from (tp)[partly broken].

Legacy Paraphrase

List of estimated income from the collection of imposts on fields. Dated.

The tablet lists the estimations of imposts (imittu) that the temple will collect from several ploughmen (ikkaru), sharecroppers (errēšu) and localities. Although not specified, the figures given in the tablet were probably measured in kors. Ruling lines separate between three sections and the tablet ends with the date.

section 1, ploughmen: 220 (kor) of barley are the impost (imittu) of A1; 160 of A2; 100 of A3. Total of 480 (kor) barley are the imposts of the ploughmen from Til-hurāṣi. LINE.

section 2, sharecroppers: 44 (kor) of B1; 2 of B2; 10 of B3; 12 of B4. Total of 68 (kor) barley and spelt from the sharecroppers. LINE.

section 3, localities: 3,221 from the irrigated farmland (tamirtu) of Re-...; 1,685 from the irrigated farmland of Naṣibāta?; 1,493 from Ṭuranu?; 495 from Biranatu and Rāṭu; 2,462 from Til-atūnāti?; 1,003 from […]

 

A1= Nabû-lēˀi/Zībi, ploughman (ikkaru) from Til-hurāṣi; A2= Bēlšunu/Nabû-ušēzib, ploughman from Til-hurāṣi; A3= Rēmūt/x-Bēl, ploughman from Til-hurāṣi; B1= Apkallu, sharecropper (errēšu); B2= Nergal-iddin/Nabû-zēru-līšir, sharecropper; B3= Nabû-nāṣir/Nabû-x, sharecropper; B4= Bēlšunu/Nabû-[x], sharecropper


Further Information

last updated by
Marie Young, Aug. 11, 2026, 1:42 p.m.
Imported (Person, Date)
Yuval Levavi, Kathleen Abraham (08/09/2023), Hannes Neitzke (19/05/2025)
Mentioned in the following publication(s)
Janković 2013 (unpubl. PhD diss.)
YOS 17