Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 3654
- Museum No.
- Wx 2
- Primary Publication
- AUWE 5 011
- Place of issue
- No place
- Regional setting
- Uruk region
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Neo-Babylonian
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Npl. 20-III-28
- Date BCE
- 12/06/606
Digeanna
- Van Driel Files
- 10 k
- Text Form
- List (various verbs, or also no verb)
- Legal Purpose
- Allocation (ina pāni)
- Transaction Type
- transactional (outgoing)
- Domain (Eanna)
- Animal husbandry
- Format of the tablet
- landscape
Content
- Paraphrase
List of livestock and silver allocated to a single herdsman. Dated.
Iddin-aḫu/Nabû-… has at his disposal (ina pāni) a total of 531 sheep and goats (ṣēnu).
The herd consists of: 50 rams (puḫālu), 340 fertile ewes (laḫru tālittu), 30 male lambs (parru), 100 female lambs (parratu), 5 he-goats (urīṣu), 4 she-goats (enzu), 1 young he-goat (lalû), 1 young she-goat (unīqu).
6 būdu-sheep are added to the total.
After the date, one final clause states that 1/3 mina and 5 shekels (of silver) are also at his (i.e. Iddin-aḫu/Nabû-…) disposal (ina pāni).
Note:
For būdu-sheep, see Aarslev 2023, 88.
- Legacy Paraphrase
List of livestock and silver allocated to a single herdsman. Dated.
The Eanna put under A’s responsibility (ina pāni) a total of 531 sheep and goats (ṣēnu). The herd consists of: 50 rams (puhālu), 340 fertile ewes (lahru tālittu), 30 male lambs (parru), 100 female lambs (parratu), 5 he-goats (urīṣu), 4 she-goats (enzu), 1 young he-goat (lalû), 1 young she-goat (unīqu). 6 būdu-sheep are added to the total. No witnesses, no scribe. After the date, one final clause states that 1/3 mina and 5 shekels (of silver) are also at his (i.e. A’s) disposal (ina pāni).
A = Iddin-ahu/Nabû-…
Further Information
- Type and Content
- Inventories
- last updated by
- Kira Awege, Feb. 4, 2026, 9:31 a.m.
- Imported (Person, Date)
- Stephania Ermidoro, Kathleen Abraham (17/09/2023)
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- AUWE 5