Basic Metadata

NaBuCCo ID
3477
Museum No.
YBC 04009
Primary Publication
YOS 7 032
CDLI P-Identifier
P305321
Place of issue
No place
Regional setting
Uruk region
Archive
Eanna temple
Period
Early Achaemenid
Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
Cyr. 04-IX-06
Date BCE
10/12/535

Digeanna

Van Driel Files
6 d
Text Form
List (various verbs, or also no verb)
Legal Purpose
Journal (various, most often ina pāni, nadin, apil, eṭir, šūbulu)
Transaction Type
transactional (janus)
Domain (Eanna)
Storehouse management and allocation of staples
Format of the tablet
portrait

Content

Paraphrase

Delivery and issue of dates.

Ištar-alik-pāni brought (elû Š) these dates as rent (sūtu) due to Eanna for Cyr. 03 from (tp)Bīt-Amūkanu (urué mú*-ka-na), from the following gardeners: Mušēzib-Marduk/Bēl-uballiṭ, Labiria/Nabû-šumu-ukīn from (tp)Hiltu-ša-šizbāni, and Nūrea/Marduk-iddin.

On Cyr. 04.IX.6, the dates were issued (nadānu) as sacrificial commodities and priestly remuneration (maššartu) and allowances (kurummatu) to: Lūṣi-ana-nūr-Šamaš; Ibnāya/Iddin-Nabû; stone carvers (under the management of) Marduk-šumu-līšir; goldsmiths (under the management of) Šamaš-iddin; Anu-zēru-iddin, the carpenter who was sent with Nabû-rē’išunu; the workers (ṣābu) of? Kalbāya*, courtier (ša rēši), and Tērik-šarrūssu; Innin-zēru-ušebši, weaver of multicolored cloths; Nabû-ēṭir who accompanied (ša itti) gods of the king; the boatmen Ištar-nādin-aḫi, Dannu-aḫḫēšu-ibni/Ištar-rēṣua, and Iddin-Nabû/(f)Ayašti; Ištar-ālik-pāni, courtier.

Legacy Paraphrase

Incoming and outgoing dates. Ištar-ālik-pāni receives 55 kurru of dates, belonging to Eanna, from the village of Bīt-pakana and its gardeners (nukaribbū), namely from Mušēzib-Marduk/Bēl-uballiṭ, Lābiriya/Nabû-šumu-ukīn from Ḫilti-ša-šizbani, and Nūrēya/Marduk-iddin. From this amount, he pays 48 kurru in maintenance rations to agents of the temple and in allocation to prebendaries (including a naggāru, šapru, malāḫu etc.).


Further Information

Type and Content
Multiple instances
last updated by
Małgorzata Sandowicz, July 3, 2025, 11:08 a.m.