Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 3328
- Museum No.
- HMA 9-02441
- Primary Publication
- UCP 9/1 47
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P248168
- Place of issue
- No place
- Regional setting
- Uruk region
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Neo-Babylonian
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Nbk. 24-V-9
- Date BCE
- 15/08/581
Digeanna
- Van Driel Files
- 7 f
- Text Form
- Note (...)
- Legal Purpose
- Allocation (ina pāni)
- Transaction Type
- multiple transactions
- Domain (Eanna)
- Cult and pertinent craft production
- Format of the tablet
- landscape
Content
- Paraphrase
97 shekels of blue wool (takiltu) (in the form of) a fabric strip (širṭu*), which the weavers Gimillu and Lâbâši delivered (maḫāru) for a kusītu-garment, is at the disposal (ina pāni) of the weaver Bēl-iqbi/Nabû-ušallim for processing (dullu).
Bēl-iqbi/Nabû-ušallim and his son Gimillu/Bēl-iqbi are weavers of multi-colored cloth; see Payne 2007: 162, 167. Collation of l. 2 (ši-ir-ṭu*) by Małgorzata Sandowicz based on the photo of the tablet. The copy shows ši ir ú.
- Legacy Paraphrase
Administrative record of transfer. Dated.
Multiple transactions of different types: re-allocation of a purple wool strip received by the temple.
The Eanna temple received (mahāru, Stat.) from A1 and A2, the weavers (išparu), 1½ minas 7 shekels of purple wool (takiltu) (in the form of) a cloth-strip (širṭu) for a kusītu-garment.
It is now at the disposal (ina pāni) of B, the weaver, for (ana) work (dullu).
A1= Gimillu/Bēl-iqbi, weaver (išparu), son of B, see Payne 2007 (PhD diss.), 167; A2= Lâbâši, weaver (išparu), see Payne 2007 (PhD diss.), 177f.; B= Bēl-iqbi/Nabû-ušallim, a known temple-serf (see Payne 2007 (PhD diss.), 162) and father of the weaver A1
Further Information
- last updated by
- Julia Giessler, Sept. 19, 2025, 3:38 p.m.