Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 3645
- Museum No.
- W 18217,5
- Primary Publication
- AUWE 5 002
- Place of issue
- Uruk city
- Regional setting
- Uruk region
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Neo-Babylonian
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Nbk. 07-I-27
- Date BCE
- 16/04/598
Digeanna
- Van Driel Files
- 7 c
- Text Form
- Receipt (maḫāru, eṭēru)
- Legal Purpose
- Administrative receipt ((ina qātē) maḫir; eṭir; also 'no verb')
- Transaction Type
- transactional (outgoing)
- Domain (Eanna)
- Personnel management and labor allocation
- Format of the tablet
- landscape
Content
- Paraphrase
Multiple transactions of the same type: issue of iron for tools and distribution of rations. Dated.
The tablet records 3 different transactions.
On the obverse, Nabû-zēru-iddin received (maḫāru Stat.) from the Eanna temple 6 minas and 8 shekels of iron, (for the manufacturing of) 5 iron spades (marru). This entry is followed by a date.
The reverse acknowledges the issue of 0;1 (36 l.) of an unspecified commodity (barley?) as food allowance (kurummatu) to Iddina/Iddin-Nergal, a bleacher (pūṣāyu), and 1 further unspecified commodity of 0;1 to Nabû-šumu-ēreš/Ina-tēšî-eṭir.
- Legacy Paraphrase
Multiple transactions of the same type: issue of iron for tools and distribution of rations. Dated.
The tablet records 3 different transactions. On the obverse, one reads that A received (mahāru Stat.) from the Eanna temple 6 minas and 8 shekels of iron(?), (for the manufacturing of) 5 iron spades (marru). This entry is followed by a date. The reverse acknowledges the issue of 0;1 kor (36 l.) of an unspecified commodity (barley?) as food ration (kurummatu) to B, a launderer (pūṣaja), and 1 further unspecified commodity to C.
A = Nabû-zēru-iddin; B = Iddina/Iddin-Nergal, launderer (pūṣaja); C = Nabû-šumu-ēreš/Ina-tēšî-eṭir
Further Information
- Type and Content
- Record of transfer
- last updated by
- Marie Young, Feb. 4, 2026, 9:17 a.m.
- Imported (Person, Date)
- Stephania Ermidoro, Kathleen Abraham (17/09/2023)
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- AUWE 5