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.