Basic Metadata

NaBuCCo ID
3497
Museum No.
YBC 04171
Primary Publication
YOS 7 052
CDLI P-Identifier
P305483
Place of issue
Uruk city
Places mentioned on Tablet
Uruk city
Archive
Eanna temple
Period
Early Achaemenid
Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
Cyr. 06-IV-24
Date BCE
11/07/533

Digeanna

Van Driel Files
6 d
Text Form
List (various verbs, or also no verb)
Legal Purpose
Issue (nadin)
Transaction Type
transactional (outgoing)
Domain (Eanna)
Storehouse management and allocation of staples
Formatting remarks
IGI-markings on the l.h.e.
Format of the tablet
landscape

Content

Paraphrase

Account of Dilmun dates issued (nadānu) to bakers as sacrificial commodities and priestly remuneration (maššartu) for m.V and m.VI.

The recipients are: Anu-šumu-ibni/Nabû-ēṭir, Bānia/Nabû-nāṣir, Mušēzib-Marduk/Kabtia, Šamaš-mukīn-apli/Mušēzib-d[…], Nanāya-aḫu-iddin, Nanāya-iddin, Anu-aḫu-iddin, Nabû-šumu-līšir, Lâbâši-Marduk, Ištar-mukīn-apli, Marduk-šumu-uṣur, Bēlšunu, Nidintu*, Balāṭu, Ardia, Innin-aḫḫē-iddin, Arad-Marduk, Nādinu, Rēmūtu, Nādinu/Nabû-šumu-ukīn, Bēl-šumu-iškun, Anu-ikṣur, Bēl-ēṭir-napšāti, Nādin-aḫi, Arad-Bēl, Bēl-nādin-apli, Innin-šumu-uṣur

An addendum on the reverse lists expenditures for ešeššu ceremonies (including products for the nāšu-beer): Dilmun dates, dried apples (˹giš˺ḫašḫur.ḫád.a*˺), honey, and rasins (geštin*.hád.a).

Legacy Paraphrase

List of the maššartu-payments in the form of Dilmun dates for months V and VI to temple bakers. A part of the payments relates to the eššeššû-ceremony.


Further Information

Type and Content
Multiple transactions
last updated by
Małgorzata Sandowicz, July 3, 2025, 11:15 a.m.