Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 3457
- Museum No.
- YBC 04116
- Primary Publication
- YOS 7 012
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P305428
- Place of issue
- No place
- Regional setting
- Uruk region
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Early Achaemenid
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Cyr. 02-VII-dd
- Inferred date
- Cyr. 02.VII.00+
- Date BCE
- 537
Digeanna
- Van Driel Files
- 6 b
- Text Form
- List (various verbs, or also no verb)
- Legal Purpose
- Other or sfs (various verbs)
- Transaction Type
- not applicable
- Domain (Eanna)
- Higher-order management and policies
- Format of the tablet
- portrait
Content
- Paraphrase
List of yearly service shifts (manzaltu) of fishermen, beginning from Cyr. 02.VII:
Days 1–10: Šamaš-zēru-līšir (ŠZL), Anu-kāṣir, Nidintu, Tabnēa, Bēl-kāṣir, and Anu-erība will serve (izuzzu).
Days 11–20: Bēlšunu (B), Šamaš-iddin, Šamaš-šumu-ukīn, Dannu-aḫḫēšu-ibni, Šumu-iddin, Zēria (ditto).
Days 21–30: Nabû-mušētiq-uddi (NMU), Nādinu, Anu-šarru-uṣur, Anu-aḫu-iddin, Ištar-aḫu-iddin, Šamaš-iddin (ditto).
NMU, B, and ŠZL guarantee that there will be no interruption in the offering cycle (baṭlu).
- Legacy Paraphrase
Distribution of annual fisherman’s services for Eanna (manzalti bā’iri). The work is divided amongst three groups, Šamaš-zēru-līšir, Anu-kāṣir, Nidintu, Tabnea, Bēl-kāṣir, and Anu-ēriba; Bēlšunu, Šamaš-iddin, Šamaš-zēru-ušabši, Dannu-aḫḫēšu-ibni, Šumu-iddin, and Zēriya; Nabû-mušētiq-uddê, Nādinu, Anu-šarru-uṣur, Anu-aḫu-iddin, Innin-aḫu-iddin, and Šamaš-iddin, each working for 10 days a month. Those named first bear responsibility.
Further Information
- Type and Content
- Administrative
- last updated by
- Małgorzata Sandowicz, July 3, 2025, 10:50 a.m.