Basic Metadata

NaBuCCo ID
3317
Museum No.
GCBC 00377
CDLI P-Identifier
Place of issue
No place
Type and Content
Record of transfer
Archive
Eanna temple
Dossier
None
Period
NB
Year BCE
None
Editio princeps
GCCI 2

Content

Paraphrase

Administrative record of transfer. Dated (no RN).

Multiple transactions of the same kind: delivery of gold to the temple and its return to the deliverer for cleaning.

The Eanna temple received (mahāru, Stat.) from A 23¼ shekels of naltar-gold (in the form of) an urat bābi* of the breast ornament (irtu) of Nanāya. The gold is (still) at his(?) disposal (ina pāni-ma)** for cleaning (kuppuru) the surfaces (qaqqaru).

The temple also received 22 shekels of gold (in the form of) an urat bābi* for the same breast ornament (wr. ki.min “ditto”) from B. This gold is (too, still) at his disposal** for cleaning.

 

* for urat bābi see Beaulieu 2003, 389.

** the unusual spelling ina igi-ni-šá-a-ma, according to Payne, suggests that the gold was delivered to the temple and then reissued back to the same goldsmith for cleaning, see Payne 2007 (PhD diss.), 208.

 

A= Nabû-nāṣir (/Nergal-iddin), a known goldsmith, see Payne 2007 (PhD diss.), 248f.; B= Kidinnu (/Šadûnu), a known goldsmith, see Payne 2007 (PhD diss.), 244

Transliteration
Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
XXX. 15-VII-1

further information

Imported (Person, Date)
Yuval Levavi, Kathleen Abraham (07/09/2023)
Legacy NaBuCCo ID
None