Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 3628
- Museum No.
- YBC 07433
- Primary Publication
- YOS 7 183
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P308376
- Place of issue
- Uruk city
- Regional setting
- Uruk region
- Places mentioned on Tablet
- Uruk city
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Early Achaemenid
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Cam. 06-XI-25
- Date BCE
- 25/02/523
Digeanna
- Van Driel Files
- 7 f
- Text Form
- List (various verbs, or also no verb)
- Legal Purpose
- Payment (apil, eṭir)
- Transaction Type
- transactional (incoming)
- Domain (Eanna)
- Cult and pertinent craft production
- Formatting remarks
- column-like formatting
- Format of the tablet
- landscape
Content
- Paraphrase
The weaver Bēl-iddin delivers (maḫāru) divine garments and yarn.
Garments of the Lady of Uruk: white woven (meḫṣu) cloth (in the form) of ṣibtu-garments, sashes (ḫuṣannu), and a mēzeḫu-scarf; woven cloth of red wool (tabarru) dyed with inzaḫurētu (in the form) of turbans (paršīgu) and a sash; woven cloth of blue wool (takiltu) (in the form) of a head scarf (lubāru kulūlu) and a headband (eru); gold-colored (sādu) garments, cording (guḫalṣu) of dark-colored fabric (da’mu), and yarn (ṭīmu).
Garments of Nanāya: white woven cloth (in the form) of a ṣibtu-garment; woven cloth of red wool dyed with madder (ḫûratu) (in the form) of a ṣabû-garment; white woven cloth (in the form) of sashes; woven cloth of blue wool (in the form) of a head scarf and a headband; turbans and a cording of dark-colored fabric.
Garments of the Lady of Rēš: white woven cloth (in the form) of a lubāru-garment and ṣibtu-garments, sashes, and other clothing; in a broken context, inzaḫurētu and a headband are mentioned.
Garments of Uṣur-amāssu: white(?) woven cloth (in the form) of ṣibtu-garments and sashes; woven cloth of red wool dyed with inzaḫurētu (in the form) of turbans.
Garments of Gula: white woven cloth (in the form) of sashes; woven cloth of red wool dyed with inzaḫurētu (in the form) of a turban.
Additionally: white yarn, yarn of red wool that was dyed with madder, and a linen cording of blue wool; woven cloth of red wool dyed with inzaḫurētu (in the form) of the turbans of the Divine Standards (urigallu) of the Lady of Uruk and Uṣur-amāssu.
See Payne 2007 (PhD diss): 124ff. for the interpretation of such texts as deliveries rather than receipts.
- Legacy Paraphrase
List of the weighing of the clothes of Ištar, Nanāya, Bēltu-ša-Rēš, Uṣur-awāssu, Gula and their emblems (urigallu), delivered by the weaver (išparu) Bēl-iddin.
Further Information
- Type and Content
- Multiple instances
- last updated by
- Małgorzata Sandowicz, June 22, 2025, 11:36 a.m.