Basic Metadata

NaBuCCo ID
3335
Museum No.
NCBT 00721
Primary Publication
YOS 24 132
Place of issue
No place
Regional setting
Uruk region
Archive
Eanna temple
Period
Neo-Babylonian
Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
Nbk. 19-VI-13
Date BCE
22/07/586

Digeanna

Van Driel Files
7 c
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

26 minas 58 shekels of processed (gamru) iron (parzillu) (in the form of) 20 spades (marru), 4 shears (serpu) for shearing (gizzu) (and) 5 sickles (niggallu), received (maḫāru) from Nanāya-uṣalli/Ardiya, the smith (nappāḫu).

Notes:

l.5–6 (Nanāya-uṣalli): The same smith as in YOS 24, 136:3–4.

Legacy Paraphrase

Administrative record of transfer. Dated.

Single transaction with multiple entries: delivery of iron tools  by a smith to the temple.

The Eanna temple received (mahāru, Stat.) from A, the smith (nappāhu), 26 minas 58 shekels of processed (gamru) iron (in the form of) 20 spades (māru), 4 shears (sirpu) for shearing (gizzu), and 5 sickles (naggallu).

 

A= Nanāya-ahu-uṣur/Ardia, the smith (nappāhu), see Payne 2007 (PhD diss.), 322


Further Information

Type and Content
Record of transfer
last updated by
Hannes Neitzke, March 10, 2026, 7:13 a.m.
Imported (Person, Date)
Yuval Levavi, Kathleen Abraham (07/09/2023)
Mentioned in the following publication(s)
Payne 2007 (unpubl. PhD diss.)