Basic Metadata

NaBuCCo ID
3257
Museum No.
GCBC 00406
Primary Publication
GCCI 2 045
Place of issue
No place
Regional setting
Uruk city
Archive
Eanna temple
Period
Neo-Babylonian
Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
Npl. 09-I-17
Date BCE
04/04/617

Digeanna

Van Driel Files
7 b
Text Form
Note (...)
Legal Purpose
Allocation (ina pāni)
Transaction Type
transactional (outgoing)
Domain (Eanna)
Cult and pertinent craft production
Format of the tablet
landscape

Content

Paraphrase

1/3 mina blocks of red stone (takkassu ša sāmtu) are at the disposal of (pāni) Gimillu, jeweller, to make (ana epēšu) pomegranates (nurmû) of gold, according to the contract (riksu) of the goddess Nanāya.

Legacy Paraphrase

Note regarding semi-precious stones put at the disposal of a jeweller. Dated.

A1, the jeweller (kabšarru), has 5/6 minas of carnelian chips (takkassu ša sāmtu) at his disposal (pānu for ina pāni) for (fashioning/repairing) the fruit-shaped (inbu) ornaments of the pomegranate-shaped (kuduppānu) beads belonging to the necklace (kišādu) of Nanāya.

 

A1= Gimillu, jeweller (kabšarru), see Payne 2007 (PhD diss.), 26


Further Information

Type and Content
Inventories
last updated by
Melanie Groß, Aug. 20, 2025, 2:07 p.m.
Imported (Person, Date)
Yuval Levavi, Kathleen Abraham (08/09/2023)