Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 3323
- Museum No.
- YBC 09547
- Primary Publication
- YOS 24 186
- Place of issue
- No place
- Regional setting
- Uruk region
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Neo-Babylonian
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Nbk. 24-III-29
- Date BCE
- 13/07/581
Digeanna
- Van Driel Files
- 7 i
- Text Form
- Note (...)
- Legal Purpose
- Allocation (ina pāni)
- Transaction Type
- transactional (outgoing)
- Domain (Eanna)
- Storehouse management and allocation of miscellaneous goods
- Format of the tablet
- landscape
Content
- Paraphrase
12 minas of alum (gabbû) and 20 minas of madder (ḫūratu), which were received (maḫāru) for x+1/8 (shekels) of silver, are at the disposal (ina pāni) of Bēl-iqbi/(Nabû-ušallim), the weaver (išparu), for dyeing (ṣīpu) the strips of combed wool (ṣuppatu).
Notes:
l.5 (Bēl-iqbi): The same weaver as in YOS 24, 149:7–8; 153:4; 182:6; 188:3; 270:3.
- Legacy Paraphrase
Administrative record of transfer. Dated.
Multiple transactions of different types: re-allocation of delivered dyeing materials to a weaver.
The Eanna temple received (mahāru, Stat.) 12 minas of alum (gabû) and 20 minas of hūratu-dye, worth x+⅛ shekel of silver. The source of this delivery is not mentioned.
It is now at the disposal (ina pāni) of A, the weaver, for dyeing (ṣīpu) the ṣuppātu-wool.
A= Bēl-iqbi (/Nabû-ušallim), weaver (išparu), also known as a temple-serf, see Payne 2007 (PhD diss.), 162
Further Information
- Type and Content
- Record of transfer
- last updated by
- Hannes Neitzke, March 10, 2026, 7:39 a.m.
- Imported (Person, Date)
- Yuval Levavi, Kathleen Abraham (07/09/2023)
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- Payne 2007 (unpubl. PhD diss.)