Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 3275
- Museum No.
- YBC 04167
- CDLI P-Identifier
- Place of issue
- No place
- Type and Content
- Balanced accounts
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Dossier
- None
- Period
- Each
- Year BCE
- None
- Editio princeps
- YOS 7
Content
- Paraphrase
Audit of livestock for a single offering shepherd. Dated.
This long text lists the credits of a single offering shepherd (rēˀu sattukku/ginê), A, during a period of 15 months (XI.06 Cyr – III.08 Cyr). The temple used most of the sheep for the daily offerings (sattukku). These are listed for each month, separated by a line on the tablet (the months in the first 6 entries are broken but reconstructed with certainty). The scribe then summarises the animals, and lists additional credits used for other purposes (these last parts are not lined).
heading: Sheep and goats (ṣēnu) that were set aside (parāsu, broken but certain) by (ina qātē) the offering shepherd for the offerings since 1st of Šabāṭ (XI) 6 Cyr (broken but certain). -LINE-
Year 6: Šabāṭ (XI): 97 sheep set aside (parsu) for the offerings. -LINE- Addar (XII): 80 sheep for (ana) the offerings, 20 in lieu of (ana) the interruption (baṭlu) (in the cult) at the Ebabbar temple (in Larsa). -LINE- Intercalary Addar (XII2): 134 sheep for the offerings, 8 to Udannu. -LINE-
Year 7: Nisan (I): 103 sheep for the offerings. -LINE- Ayyār (II): 77 sheep for the offerings. -LINE- Siman (III) 125 sheep for the offerings. -LINE- Dûzu (IV): 109 sheep for the offerings. -LINE- Abu (V): 93 sheep for the offerings, 16 carcasses. -LINE- Ulūl (VI): 107 sheep for the offerings, of which (ina libbi) 1 šukuttum (uncl.), 25 in lieu of (ana) the interruption (x+) 8 carcasses. -LINE- Tašrīt (VII): 126 sheep for the offerings, of which 1 šukuttum (uncl.), 8 carcasses. -LINE- Arahsamna (VIII): 100 sheep for the offerings (x+), 10 carcasses. -LINE- Kislīm (XI): 111 sheep for the offerings, 15 carcasses. -LINE- Ṭebēt (X): 127 sheep for the offerings, 4(?) to Udannu, 15 carcasses. -LINE- Šabāṭ (XI): 63 sheep for the offerings, 3 carcasses. -LINE- Addar (XII): 139 sheep for the offerings, 4 to Udannu, 7 carcasses. -LINE-
Year 8: Nisan (I): 105 sheep for the offerings, 3 carcasses. -LINE- Ayyār (II): 105 sheep for the offerings, 8 carcasses. -LINE-
summary: The Eanna temple received (mahāru, Stat.) a total (napharu) of 1808 (sic) sheep for the daily offerings , 45 in lieu of (ana) the interruption (in the cult) at the Ebabbar temple (in Larsa), 16 to Udannu, 2 done/prepared(?) for(?) (ina muhhi epēšu, wr. ép-šú) the šukuttum (uncl.), and 162 carcasses.
additional credits: The Eanna temple received (mahāru, Stat.) a total (napharu) of 23 animals that were given (broken) to the herdsmen (nāqidu) for the fold (qabuttu): 57 young male sheep (parru), which he gave to the fattening stable (bīt urê), 20 male lambs (kalūmu) which he gave for the lambs (wr. sila4) of (ina) the allotment (parāsu, Inf.) of the 22nd of Kislīm (IX) year 8 (sic), 2 ewes (lahru), 1 male lamb, and 20 female lambs (parratu).
grand summary: A grand total of 2133 sheep have been received from A the offering shepherd and B the shepherd of the gate, from the 1st of Šabāṭ (XI) 6 Cyr until the 1st of Siman (III) 8 Cyr.
balance: He (i.e. A) is responsible (ina pāni) for a remainder (rēhu) of 128 sheep for the offerings starting on the 1st of Siman (III).08 (Cyr).
* This is a rare case in which both terms for male lambs, parru and kalūmu, are used. Following M. Kozuh (2014, 264f.), parru is translated as young male sheep and kalūmu as male lambs.
A= Šūzubu, offering shepherd (rēˀu sattukku/ginê); B= Šamaš-ahu-iddin the shepherd (nāqidu) of the gate
- Transliteration
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Cyr. 08-II-7
further information
- Imported (Person, Date)
- Yuval Levavi, Kathleen Abraham (08/09/2023)
- Legacy NaBuCCo ID
- None