Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 3350
- Museum No.
- GCBC 00138
- Primary Publication
- GCCI 1 246
- Place of issue
- No place
- Regional setting
- Uruk region
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Neo-Babylonian
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Nbk. 23-IV-04
- Date BCE
- 24/06/582
Digeanna
- Van Driel Files
- 10 k
- Text Form
- Note (...)
- Legal Purpose
- Administrative receipt ((ina qātē) maḫir; eṭir; also 'no verb')
- Transaction Type
- transactional (incoming)
- Domain (Eanna)
- Cult and pertinent craft production
- Format of the tablet
- landscape
Content
- Paraphrase
A grand total of 20 male sheep were received (maḫāru) from Nādin-aḫi, from the sheep that were put at his disposal for sorting (parāsu). 15 of them are designated for the regular offering (ginû) and the occasional offering (guqqû) of the 4th day. (Of these 15), 7 are for regular offerings and 8 are for sorting, and 5 (remaining of the 20) are for the regular offering of the 5th day.
- Legacy Paraphrase
Administrative record of transfer. Dated.
Single transaction: receipt of sheep and goats for the regular offerings.
This tablet, written on the 4th of Dûzu (IV), records that the Eanna temple received (mahāru, Stat.) from A a grand total (pap.pap) of 20 sheep and goats (ṣēnu) to be set aside (and re-allocated) (ana parāsu, wr. kud-as) from the sheep and goats that remain under his responsibility (ina pāni):
7 sacrificial sheep and goats (ṣēnu sattukku), 8 for setting aside of [x], a total of 15 sheep and goats for (ina) the regular offerings (ginû) and guqqû-offerings of day 4, and 5 for (ina) the regular offerings of day 5.
A= Šumu-uṣur, a known offering shepherd (rēˀu sattukku/ginê), see YOS 17, 73.
Further Information
- Type and Content
- Record of transfer
- last updated by
- Dylan Schimek, Oct. 2, 2026, 10:59 a.m.
- Imported (Person, Date)
- Yuval Levavi, Kathleen Abraham (07/09/2023)
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- Aarslev 2023 (PhD Diss.)
- GCCI 1
- Kozuh 2014