Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 3642
- Museum No.
- YBC 07425
- Primary Publication
- YOS 7 197
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P308368
- Place of issue
- No place
- Regional setting
- Uruk region
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Early Achaemenid
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Cam. 08-IV-00
- Date BCE
- 526
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
- Column-like formatting. Most entries are preceded by small markings on the left-hand edge resembling a left-slanting A-sign (copied by Dougherty as IGI). For similar archival markings, see SBTU 2 193 [AUWE 11 193], YOS 21 202, and remarks of Gehlken (1996, 36).
- Format of the tablet
- portrait
Content
- Paraphrase
Dates bought (maḫāru) with silver by Iṣṣūru/Rēmūtu and issued (nadānu) for (ana) date makkasu of m.IV of Cam. 04 to prebendary bakers, small temples, the perfumers’ workshop (bīt ḫilṣi), and several individuals.
The prebendary bakers are: Arad-Marduk, Bēl-nādin-apli, Anu-šumu-ibni, Sîn-ēreš, Anu-aḫu-iddin/Gimillu, Nabû-šumu-imbi, Šamaš-mukīn-apli, IGI.DU-zēru-ibni, Nanāya-iddin, Innin-šumu-uṣur, Rēmūtu, Kināya, Tabnēa, Marduk-rēmanni, Lâbâši-Marduk, Arad-Marduk/Marduk-šumu-iddin, Ardia, Ištar-mukīn-apli, Talīmu, Iqīša-Marduk, Bēl-ittannu, Dummuqu, Bēl-ēṭir-napšāti, Anu-šumu-ibni/Nabû-ēṭir, Anu-aḫu-iddin, Nādinu, Nidintu.
The institutions are the temples of Marduk (bīt Marduk), Sîn (bīt Sîn), Nusku (bīt Nusku), and Ninurta (bīt Ninurta) and the perfumers’ workshop.
Other beneficiaries are the courtier Bēl-eṭēri-Nabû (ša rēši) and Lūṣi-ana-nūri […] who receive dates as their allowances (kurummatu), and Tabnēa/Ḫanṭušu and Bēl-gimilanni, who receive significantly larger amounts of dates.
- Legacy Paraphrase
Distribution of superior quality dates (makkasu), purchased with money provided by Iṣṣur/Rēmūt, to the prebendary-bakers. The text provides a list of 29 prebendaries (though no filiations), 2 ša rēši administrators, Bēl-eṭēri-Nabû and Lūṣi-ana-nūri-Marduk, and five smaller temples of Eanna, namely the Bīt Madruk, Sîn, Enšada, Ninurta, and Ḫilṣu.
Further Information
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- last updated by
- Małgorzata Sandowicz, July 3, 2025, 11:03 a.m.