Basic Metadata

NaBuCCo ID
3555
Museum No.
YBC 03503
Primary Publication
YOS 7 110
CDLI P-Identifier
P304937
Place of issue
No place
Regional setting
Uruk region
Archive
Eanna temple
Period
Early Achaemenid
Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
Cam. 01-mm-dd
Inferred date
Cam. 01.VI.00
Date BCE
529

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
Format of the tablet
portrait

Content

Paraphrase

Choice dates (makkasu) issued (nadānu) to prebendary bakers for […], sacrificial commodities and priestly remuneration (maššartu) in m.IV–m.V, and second meals (tardennu) before Uṣur-amāssu in m.IV, m.V, and m.VI. The list is divided into 3 sections:

1. IGI.DU-zēru-ibni, Nanāya-iddin, Rēmūtu, Bēlšunu, Innin-šumu-uṣur, Talīmu, Anu-šumu-ibni/Nabû-ēṭir, Ištar-mukīn-apli, Dummuqu, Lâbâši-Marduk, Anu-ikṣur, Bēl-supê-muḫur, Nabû-rē’išunu, Iqīša-Marduk, Zumbu and his brothers, Bēl-ēṭir-napšāti, Nabû-mušētiq-uddi, Nādinu and Gimillu, Bānia, Bēl-iqīša and Lūṣi-ana-nūri.

2. Arad-Marduk, Bēl-nādin-apli, Anu-šumu-ibni/Innin-šumu-uṣur, Anu-aḫu-iddin/Gimillu, Lâbâši and his brothers, Šamaš-mukīn-apli, Anu-šumu-ibni, Nanāya-iddin, Rēmūtu, Bēlšunu, Balāṭu, Lâbâši-Marduk, Ardia, Innin-šumu-uṣur, IGI.DU-zēru-ibni, Ištar-mukīn-apli, Iqīša-Marduk, Dummuqu, Bēl-ēṭir-napšāti, Līšir, Bēl-supê-muḫur, Nādinu, Nidintu, Bānia, Arad-Bēl.

3. Bēl-ēṭir-napšāti, Nādinu, Šamaš-mukīn-apli, Anu-šumu-ibni/Nabû-ēṭir, Nidintu, Anu-šumu-ibni, Anu-aḫu-iddin, Rēmūtu, IGI.DU-zēru-ibni, Lâbâši-Marduk, Ardia, Ištar-mukīn-apli, Kī-Šamaš, Nanāya-iddin, Talīmu, Innin-šumu-uṣur, Bēl-nādin-apli, Innin-zēru-ušebši and his […], Bānia, Zumbu and his brothers, Lūṣi-ana-nūr-Šamaš. 

Legacy Paraphrase

Distribution in three series of choice makkasu dates as allocations (maššartu) to the prebendary bakers for the sacrificial meals of the deities of the Eanna for the months IV, V and VI.


Further Information

Type and Content
Lists
last updated by
Małgorzata Sandowicz, July 3, 2025, 10:48 a.m.