Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 3461
- Museum No.
- YBC 03995
- Primary Publication
- YOS 7 016
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P305307
- Place of issue
- No place
- Regional setting
- Uruk region
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Early Achaemenid
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Cyr. 01-00-00
- Date BCE
- 538
Digeanna
- Van Driel Files
- 5 b
- Text Form
- List (various verbs, or also no verb)
- Legal Purpose
- Allocation (ina pāni)
- Transaction Type
- transactional (outgoing)
- Domain (Eanna)
- Storehouse management and allocation of staples
- Format of the tablet
- portrait
Content
- Paraphrase
Allowances (kurummatu) for executing the office of calculator or auditor (ša mānûti)(?) with responsibility for certain groups of workers, craftsmen, and individuals over several months in Cyr. 01.
The recipients include: (a) men working at the Raqqat-Šamaš, (b) the carriers of the royal shares in the offerings (ša kurummat šarri), (c) the guards (maṣṣaru) of the courtyard house (bīt kisalli), (d) Šamaš-erība, and (e) Ištar-alik-pāni. Their respective areas of responsibility are:
(a): presumably the Raqqat-Šamaš and men working in cattle and sheep sheds; (b) Eanna-ibni, runners (musaḫḫiru) of the High Priest (šatammu) and of Nabû-aḫu-iddin (<bēl piqitti>), the men at the wall and walkway (malāku), the bird herders, the gatekeepers (atû) of the priestly assembly (kiništu); (c) the workers of the storehouse (bīt qātē); the delegated (ša našparti) workers; Iqīša the horse handler (šušānu); the guards of the harbour; the washermen; Barbaru; Nanāya-ēreš; Balāṭu; Aḫūšunu; (c) the stone carvers and the goldsmiths; the sack makers; the gatekeepers (atû) of the granary; (e) craftsmen working at the (tp)Takkīru Canal.
- Legacy Paraphrase
List of maintenance rations (kurummatu) paid in the first year of Cyrus II to the workers of Raqqat-Šamaš. They include temple workers, craftsmen, and administrators (the deputies of the bishop (šatammu) of Eanna and Nabû-aḫu-iddin, troops of the city wall, shepherds etc.).
Further Information
- Type and Content
- Expenditures
- last updated by
- Michael Jursa, Nov. 16, 2025, 5:13 p.m.