Basic Metadata

NaBuCCo ID
3326
Museum No.
NBC 04652
Primary Publication
YOS 24 153
Place of issue
No place
Regional setting
Uruk region
Archive
Eanna temple
Period
Neo-Babylonian
Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
Nbk. 25-II-15
Date BCE
19/05/580

Digeanna

Van Driel Files
7 f
Text Form
Receipt (maḫāru, eṭēru)
Transaction Type
transactional (incoming)
Domain (Eanna)
Storehouse management and allocation of miscellaneous goods
Format of the tablet
landscape

Content

Paraphrase

9 minas 45 shekels of woven cloth (miḫṣu) for the door (daltu) of the tent (zāratu) (and) 10 shekels of red wool (tabarru) (dyed with) madder (ḫūratu) were received (maḫāru) from Bēl-iqbi/(Nabû-ušallim), the weaver (išpāru).

Notes:

l.4 (Bēl-iqbi): The same weaver as in YOS 24, 149:7–8; 182:6; 186:5; 188:3; 270:3.

Legacy Paraphrase

Administrative record of transfer. Dated.

Single transaction with multiple entries: a delivery of wool to the temple.

The Eanna temple received (mahāru, Stat.) from A, the weaver, 9 minas 45 shekels of woven cloth (mihṣu) for the tent door (daltu ša zārati) and 10 shekels of red wool (tabarru) (dyed with) šà.hab-dye (uncl.).

 

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, 7:19 a.m.
Imported (Person, Date)
Yuval Levavi, Kathleen Abraham (07/09/2023)
Mentioned in the following publication(s)
Payne 2007 (unpubl. PhD diss.)