Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 3498
- Museum No.
- YBC 04072
- Primary Publication
- YOS 7 053
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P305384
- Place of issue
- Šaṭir
- Regional setting
- Uruk region
- Places mentioned on Tablet
- Šaṭir
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Early Achaemenid
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Cyr. 06-VI-03
- Date BCE
- 18/08/533
Digeanna
- Van Driel Files
- 9 j
- Text Form
- Note (...)
- Legal Purpose
- Administrative receipt ((ina qātē) maḫir; eṭir; also 'no verb')
- Transaction Type
- transactional (janus)
- Domain (Eanna)
- Agriculture
- Format of the tablet
- landscape
Content
- Paraphrase
[…]/Eanna-būdia received (maḫāru) 273;4 ½ barley of the Lady of Uruk from (ina qātē) Nabû-šumu-līšir/Ilē’’i-Marduk as a part of the rent (sūtu) of Ile’’i-Marduk/Nabû-šumu-ukīn//Eṭēru, by commission (našpartu) of Anu-šarru-uṣur, Royal Resident (qīpu) of Eanna, Nabû-mukīn-apli, High Priest, (šatammu) of Eanna, and Nabû-aḫu-iddin, Royal Overseer (ša rēš šarri bēl piqitti) of Eanna, and […]/Balāṭu. The barley is being taken up (elû Š) to Babylon for (people performing) work (dullu).
3 witnesses.
Scribe: Rēmanni-ili/Kiribtu.
For the restoration of Nabû-šumu-līšir's name, see Janković 2013 (PhD diss.): 214.
- Legacy Paraphrase
Payment by [PN]/Itti-Eanna-budiya to Eanna of 273 kurru and 4 sutu barley from the rent (sūtu) of Ile’i-Marduk/Nabû-šumu-ukīn//Ēṭiru’s farm by intermediary of (ina qāt) his son (?) Nabû-[…]/Ile’i-Marduk on the orders of Anu-šarru-uṣur, royal representative (qīpu) of Eanna, Nidinti-Bēl/Nabû-mukīn-apli//Dābibī, bishop (šatammu) of Eanna, and Nabû-aḫu-iddin, royal representative (ša rēš šarri) and commissioner (bēl piqitti) of Eanna. This is a paper transaction only; the barley has actually been transferred to Babylon for paying for work (ana dulli ana bābili šūlât). Three witnesses and Rīmāni-ili/Kiribtu, the scribe.
Further Information
- Type and Content
- Single transaction
- last updated by
- Małgorzata Sandowicz, July 3, 2025, 11:15 a.m.