Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 3368
- Museum No.
- Eames R27
- Primary Publication
- Place of issue
- No place
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Neo-Babylonian
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- XXX. 17-XII-8
- Date BCE
- 588
Content
- Paraphrase
Administrative record of transfer.
pSingle transaction with multiple entries: a list of garments given for repair and cleaning. Dated (no RN).
The tablet lists woven cloths (mihṣu) that the Eanna temple gave (nadānu, wr. sum-nu) to weavers (išparu), and one unnamed launderer (pūṣāya), for (ana) repairs (batqu). This header-like info is added at the end of the text.
1 lubāru-garment and 1 šalhu-garment are at the disposal (ina pāni) of fA1 for sewing (kubbû); 2 lubāru-garments of the (divine) Ladies/Mistresses (dgašanmeš) are at the disposal of A2 and A3; 1 lubāru-garment is at the disposal of A2; 1 cloth-cover (hullānu) is at the disposal of A3; and 6 šalhu-garments are at the disposal of the launderer for (ana) cleaning (zikûtu).
A1= fḪipāya, weaver (išparu); A2= Nanāya-ēreš (/Nabû-ušallim), weaver (išparu), see Payne 2007 (PhD diss.), 186f.; A3= Ṭāb-Uruk (/Balāssu?), weaver (išparu) and a known temple-serf, see Payne 2007 (PhD diss.), 200.
Further Information
- Type and Content
- Record of transfer
- Imported (Person, Date)
- Yuval Levavi, Kathleen Abraham (07/09/2023)
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- Payne 2007 (unpubl. PhD diss.)