Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 3285
- Museum No.
- NBC 04829
- CDLI P-Identifier
- Place of issue
- No place
- Type and Content
- Inventories
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Dossier
- None
- Period
- NB
- Year BCE
- None
- Editio princeps
Content
- Paraphrase
Tabulated livestock assessment of multiple herds following an inspection. Dated.
The tablet was written at the time of shearing and inspection of the herd, on the 18th of Ayyār (II). Its tabulated obverse gives the numbers of animals from five herds and the amounts of wool that the temple extracted from them. The non-tabulated reverse gives the totals. For each herd the scribe listed the (heading): (i) shorn sheep (immeru gaziztu), (ii) male lambs (immeru ṣehru), (iii) wool (šipātu), (iv) a column with no heading probably listing deficiencies in wool (extracted), (v) sheep (immeru), and the last column lists the names of the herdsmenunder the heasing: (vi) received (mahru) and counted (minûtu). This is followed by the date, and the five herds.
A1: 564 shorn sheep, 122 male lambs, 10 talents 5 minas of wool (deficiency of) 4 talent 1 mina of wool, 50 (extracted) sheep.
A2: 310 shorn sheep, 100 male lambs, 4 talents 40 minas of wool (deficiency of) 3 talent 5 mina of wool, 34 (extracted) sheep.
A3: 145 shorn sheep, 53 male lambs, 3 talents 20 minas of wool (deficiency of) 17½ mina of wool, 11 (extracted) sheep.
A4: 160 shorn sheep, 50 male lambs, 2 talents 20 minas of wool (deficiency of) 1 talent 40 mina of wool, 11 (extracted) sheep.
A5: 162 shorn sheep, 52 male lambs, 3 talents 45 minas of wool (deficiency of) 36 mina of wool, 11 (extracted) sheep.
The totals are given on the reverse: 1344 shorn sheep and goats (ṣēnu gizzu) out of a total (babtu) of 5029; 378 sheep (immeru), out of total of 1011, were inspected (amāru, Stat Pl.); 24 talents 10 mina out of total of 68 talents 26 mina (of wool, broken) …; the wool was weighted (šipātu hâṭu), referring either to the previous or the next figure; 9 talents 30 mina, out of total of 41 talents 5 mina, are the deficit (mâṭu, LÁ?.A?); 117 sacrificial sheep (immeru sattukku), out of a total of 232, were taken (ṣabtu); shearing (gizzu, wr. gi-zu-zu?) on the 18th day.
A1= Bulluṭu//Ma?-gi-du; A2= Tagibi-ili; A3= Aplāya//Kudurru; A4= Nabû-aplu-ēreš//Ṣu-[...]; A5= Nabû-zākir//Nabû-[…]
- Transliteration
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Npl. 13-II-18
further information
- Imported (Person, Date)
- Yuval Levavi, Kathleen Abraham (08/09/2023)
- Legacy NaBuCCo ID
- None