Basic Metadata

NaBuCCo ID
3293
Museum No.
NBC 04847
CDLI P-Identifier
Place of issue
No place
Type and Content
Inventories
Archive
Eanna temple
Dossier
None
Period
NB
Year BCE
None
Editio princeps
Kozuh 2014

Content

Paraphrase

Tabulated audit of livestock for a single herdsman for years 28–32 Nbk.

A long, full grid tabulated audit (minûtu) of A's herd for years 28–32 of Nebuchadnezzar. The audit takes the number of animals originally entrusted to A, in addition to the number he should have (by the time of audit) according to the temple’s model of yearly growth, compares it to the actual number of animals inspected (amāru Stat.), and then calculates A’s remaining balance (rēhu).

Main heading (Obv.): account of sheep and goats (ṣēnu) and cattle (lâtu, áb.gu4hi.a).

Column headings (Obv.) sheep: rams (puhālu), ewes (lahru), male lambs (kalūmu), female lambs (parratu), total whites (peṣûtu), goats [he-goats] ([urīṣu]), she-goats (enzu), young he-goats (gadû), young she-goats (unīqu), total blacks (ṣalmūtu), and grand total (pap.pap) of sheep and goats, property (makkūru) of Ištar of Uruk and Nanāya.

Column headings (Rev.) cattle: bulls (puhāllu, gu4pu-hal), cows (littu), two-year old bulls (alpu šanû), two-year old cows (littu šanû), male calves (būru), female calves (sāhirtu), account settlement (nikkassu epēšu) of the property of Ištar of Uruk and Nanāya.

Grand summary:(fragmentary, broken amount of) livestock under A’s responsibility (ina pāni) (without) previous balance (rēhu mahru).

The audit also takes into account: allowable losses for dead animals (dīktu), (goat) hair (šārtu), hides (mašku), shearing (gizzu), wages (idu), wool (šipātu).

A= Nanāya-ēreš/Ini-ili.

Transliteration
Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
Nbk. 32-mm-dd

further information

Imported (Person, Date)
Yuval Levavi, Kathleen Abraham (08/09/2023)
Legacy NaBuCCo ID
None