Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 3540
- Museum No.
- YBC 03500
- Primary Publication
- YOS 7 095
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P304934
- Place of issue
- Uruk city
- Regional setting
- Uruk region
- Places mentioned on Tablet
- Agurrēti
- Takkīru
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Early Achaemenid
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Cyr. 08-IX-13
- Date BCE
- 03/12/531
Digeanna
- Van Driel Files
- 9 e
- Text Form
- List (various verbs, or also no verb)
- Legal Purpose
- Debt Repayment (maḫir, eṭir)
- Transaction Type
- transactional (incoming)
- Domain (Eanna)
- Agriculture
- Formatting
- True
- Formatting remarks
- paragraph lines
- Format of the tablet
- portrait
Content
- Paraphrase
List of more than 2000;0 dates from gardeners that Ardia/Eanna-šumu-ukīn, Balāṭu/Šumu-uṣur, and Bēl-eṭēri-Šamaš measured out (mašāḫu) by commission (našpartu) of Nabû-mukīn-apli, High Priest (šatammu) of Eanna, and Nabû-aḫu-iddin, Royal Overseer (ša rēš šarri bēl piqitti) of Eanna. The dates are the impost (imittu) of several fields of Ištar of Uruk, part of the rent (sūtu) of Ardia/Nabû-bān-aḫī//Rēmūt-Ea (A) for the year Cyr. 08 on the 13th day of m.IX. The dates, partially including small amounts of choice-dates (makkasu), and the payers are listed in 5 paragraphs depending on the regions, in which their fields are located.
1. (tp)Town-of-Baked-Bricks (ālu agurrēti): big amounts from Dummuqu/Aplāya and Apparāya/Ḫaḫḫūru; Bēl-nādin-apli/Marduk-šumu-iddin and Nidintu/Ṣillāya; Nanāya-aḫu-iddin/Nanāya-ēreš and Apparāya; Bēl-nādin-apli/Marduk-šumu-iddin and Šellebu; the smith Nidintu via (ina qātē) Nanāya-aḫū-iddin; and smaller amounts from fields with young date palms from Karêa/Dannu-Nergal; Apparāya; Balāṭu/Ibni-Ištar; and Nanāya-iddin, the washerman*.
2. Righthand of the (tp)Takkīru Canal: Bēl-ēṭir, bow maker (sasinnu); Lâbâši, bow maker; Nabû-zēru-iddin, bow maker; Nabû-ēṭir, bow maker; Gimillu, bow maker; [...]-A, bow maker; Nabû-ušēzib [...]; Nabû-nāṣir, bow maker; Nidintu and Gimillu; Šamaš-lēʼi/Šamaš-šumu-līšir.
3. Left bank of the (tp)Bitqu Canal: 2 men whose names are lost in a lacuna; Imbia/Šadûnu; Lūṣi-ana-nūri/Nabû-aḫḫē-bulliṭ; Bānia/Bēl-iddin; Niqūdu/Nabû-kāṣir in two sections (bābu).
4. Right bank of the (tp)Bitqu Canal: Iqīša/Šamaš-rēʼûa; Nanāya-uṣalli/Ardia; Šamaš-iddin, carpenter; Iqīša/Marduk-ēṭir; Guzānu and Lâbâši-ilī; Innin-zēru-ušebši, smith; Nanāya-iddin/Arad-Innin; Šamaš-ēreš/Ilu-iddin; Nanāya-iddin, builder via Sūqāya/Gimillu; Aḫu-iddin and Šamaš-iddin via Sūqāya; Šamaš-uballiṭ/Nabû-aḫḫē-šullim; Guzānu/Marduk-ēṭir; Ardia/Erēbšu; Niqūdu and Gimillu.
Righthand of the (tp)Bitqu Canal: Innin-šumu-ibni
- Legacy Paraphrase
Summary table of the impost (imittu) for dates made by the gardeners of the general farm of Ardiya/Nabû-bān-aḫi//Rēmūt-Ea to Ardiya/Eanna-šumu-ibni, Balāṭu/Šumu-uṣur, and Bēl-eṭēri-Šamaš, representatives of Nabû-mukīn-apli/Nādinu//Dābibī, bishop (šatammu) of Eanna, and Nabû-aḫu-iddin, royal representative (ša rēš šarri) and commissioner (bēl piqitti), for the agricultural districts of Til-agurrēti, the right bank of the Takkiru canal, and the both banks of the Bitqa-canal. Numerous entries. The sum total of dates is 2030 kurru.
Further Information
- Type and Content
- Multiple (list)
- last updated by
- Julia Giessler, June 5, 2025, 8:34 a.m.
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- Cocquerillat 1968