Basic Metadata

NaBuCCo ID
3318
Museum No.
NCBT 01298
Primary Publication
YOS 19 245
CDLI P-Identifier
P303351
Place of issue
No place
Regional setting
Uruk region
Archive
Eanna temple
Period
Neo-Babylonian
Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
Nbn. 7-XII-1
Date BCE
08/03/548

Digeanna

Van Driel Files
7 a
Text Form
Receipt (maḫāru, eṭēru)
Legal Purpose
Administrative receipt ((ina qātē) maḫir; eṭir; also 'no verb')
Transaction Type
transactional (janus)
Domain (Eanna)
Cult and pertinent craft production
Format of the tablet
landscape

Content

Paraphrase

Bēl-ibni and Ištar-šumu-ibni, goldsmiths, receive (maḫāru) gold for repairs on the crowns (kulīlu and agû) of Nanāya and Uṣur-amāssu.

Legacy Paraphrase

Administrative record of transfer. Dated

Single transaction: disbursement of gold by the temple for divine statues.

The Eanna temple received (mahāru, Stat.) from A1 and A2, the goldsmiths (kutimmu) 1 shekel of gold (with which they) repaired (batqu) the crown (kulīlu) of Nanāya and the golden tiara (agû) of Uṣur-amāssu.

 

A1= Bēl-ibni (/Nabû-zēru-ibni//Nappāhu), goldsmith (kutimmu), see Payne 2007 (PhD diss.), 300f.; A2= Ištar-šumu-ibni (/Nādin//Bābūtu), goldsmith (kutimmu), see Payne 2007 (PhD diss.), 235ff.


Further Information

Type and Content
Record of transfer
last updated by
Matthias Adelhofer, July 19, 2025, 7:22 a.m.
Imported (Person, Date)
Yuval Levavi, Kathleen Abraham (07/09/2023
Mentioned in the following publication(s)
YOS 19