Basic Metadata

NaBuCCo ID
3270
Museum No.
NCBT 00716
Primary Publication
YOS 24 104
Place of issue
No place
Regional setting
Uruk region
Archive
Eanna temple
Period
Neo-Babylonian
Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
Nbk. 17-X-23
Date BCE
12/01/581

Digeanna

Van Driel Files
7 c
Text Form
Note (...)
Legal Purpose
Balanced account (epēš nikkassī)
Transaction Type
transactional (janus)
Domain (Eanna)
Personnel management and labor allocation
Format of the tablet
landscape

Content

Paraphrase

The account (nikkassu) of the iron (parzillu) (for) trade (nadānu u maḫāru), as much as (mala) was given to Arad-Nabû/Ša-Nabû-šū (AN), is settled (epēšu) with AN; the processed (gamru) iron was received (from him and) his wages (idu) have been paid (eṭēru).

Legacy Paraphrase

Note stating that the account of a blacksmith is settled. Dated.

The tablet concerns the accounting (nikkassu) of the iron that was given to and received from (nadānu u mahāru) A. All (mimma mala) that was given (nadānu, wr. sum-nu) to him is settled (epēšu, Stat.), the temple received (mahāru, Stat.) his processed (gamru) iron, and his wages (idu) have been paid (eṭēru, Stat.).

 

A= Arad-Nabû/Ša-Nabû-šū, a known blacksmiths (nappāh parzilli), see Payne 2007 (PhD diss.), 295f.


Further Information

Type and Content
Inventories
last updated by
Hannes Neitzke, March 10, 2026, 7:04 a.m.
Imported (Person, Date)
Yuval Levavi, Kathleen Abraham (08/09/2023)
Mentioned in the following publication(s)
Payne 2007 (unpubl. PhD diss.)