Basic Metadata

NaBuCCo ID
3334
Museum No.
NBC 01174
Primary Publication
BIN 1 173
CDLI P-Identifier
P291521
Place of issue
No place
Regional setting
Uruk region
Archive
Eanna temple
Period
Neo-Babylonian
Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
Npl. 16-IX-16
Date BCE
08/12/610

Digeanna

Van Driel Files
7 c
Text Form
List (various verbs, or also no verb)
Legal Purpose
Administrative receipt ((ina qātē) maḫir; eṭir; also 'no verb')
Transaction Type
multiple transactions
Domain (Eanna)
Craft production (non-cult related)
Format of the tablet
landscape

Navico

Oblate/Slave Descriptor
oblate

Content

Paraphrase

Various iron tools, in total 2 minas 12 shekels of iron are received (maḫāru) from Nabû-zēru-iddin, a blacksmith: 1 iron saw at the disposal (ina pāni) of the jewellers, 2 suppinnutools, 10 matqu tools, 6 nalpātu tools are at the disposal of Ištar-šumu-ēreš, a carpenter.

Legacy Paraphrase

Administrative record of transfer. Dated.

Multiple transactions of different types: allocation of iron tools that were taken in by the temple from its blacksmith.

The Eanna temple received (mahāru, Stat.) from A, the smith, a total of 2 minas 12 shekels of processed (gamru) iron: 1 iron saw (šaššāru) is at the disposal of (ina pāni) the jewellers (kabšarru), and 2 iron suppinnu-tools, 10 iron matqu-tools, and 6 iron nalpātu-tools are at the disposal of B, the carpenter (nagāru).

A= Nabû-zēru-iddin (/Rāš-ili), blacksmith (nappāhu parzilli), also a known temple-serf, see Payne 2007 (PhD diss.), 317ff. B= Ištar-šumu-ēreš, carpenter (nagāru)


Further Information

Type and Content
Record of transfer
last updated by
Matthias Adelhofer, July 28, 2026, 7:59 a.m.
Imported (Person, Date)
Yuval Levavi, Kathleen Abraham (07/09/2023)
Mentioned in the following publication(s)
BIN 1