Basic Metadata

NaBuCCo ID
3458
Museum No.
YBC 03811
Primary Publication
YOS 7 013
CDLI P-Identifier
P305169
Place of issue
No place
Regional setting
Uruk region
Archive
Eanna temple
Period
Early Achaemenid
Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
XXX. yy-mm-dd
Inferred date
Cyr. 02.III.03+
Date BCE
537

Digeanna

Van Driel Files
9 j
Text Form
List (various verbs, or also no verb)
Legal Purpose
Issue (nadin)
Transaction Type
transactional (janus)
Domain (Eanna)
Storehouse management and allocation of staples
Format of the tablet
landscape

Content

Paraphrase

Account of 1000;0 barley from (lapāni) the Governor (bēl pīḫāti) of Esagil, measured by Ištar-alik-pāni on Cyr. 01.00.14.

Issued to/for: Kī-Bēl, the messenger of the Governor of Esagila; hired workers and house rent (idu) of Balāṭu/Sîn-ibni; Gūzānu/Bēl-šumu-iškun (G) via (ina qātē) Bēl-aḫu-uṣur, the scribe’s (text: “my”) messenger, for expenses including house rent; G, in (tp)Nabāta; G, for expenses including the house rent for which Šalammu guaranteed in (tp)Bīt-Amurru…; G in (tp)Bīt-[…]; Nanāya-iddin the fattener in (tp)Ḫuṣṣēti-ša-rab-bīti; house rent of Anu-ēṭir in (tp)Ḫuṣṣēti-ša-rab-bīti; fodder for oxen, sheep, and goats.

(Withdrawn) from the granary (bīt karê) on Cyr. 02.III.03 (by) Rēmūtu and Nanāya-iddin.

(Additional issues to/for) Nabû-bēl-uṣur, mušallimānu-craftsman, Gūzānu/Nanāya-aḫu-iddin, and boat rent for Balāssu and Gūzānu.

Legacy Paraphrase

Barley expenditures of Eanna. The 1000 kurru of barley, bought from the administrator (bēl pīhāti) of Esangila by Ištar-ālik-pāni, are divided into rations, fodder, rental and miscellaneous payments, including for Bēlšunu, messenger (mār šipri) of the administrator of the Esangila, and for various people in Huṣṣētu-ša-Rab-bīti.


Further Information

Type and Content
Expenditures
last updated by
Małgorzata Sandowicz, July 3, 2025, 10:55 a.m.