Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 3665
- Museum No.
- W 18218,3
- Primary Publication
- AUWE 5 022
- Place of issue
- Uruk city
- Regional setting
- Uruk region
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Neo-Babylonian
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- XXX. yy-mm-dd
Digeanna
- Van Driel Files
- 10 k
- Text Form
- List (various verbs, or also no verb)
- Legal Purpose
- Inventory (occasionally amāru)
- Transaction Type
- unclear
- Domain (Eanna)
- Animal husbandry
- Format of the tablet
- portrait
Content
- Paraphrase
List of livestock, with subtotals and a grand total. Names of herdsmen are not preserved or not given. No date.
The tablet lists 1000 fertile? ewes (laḫru tālittu? The term tālittu is broken), 94+[x] male lambs (kalūmu), 200 female lambs (parratu) – subtotal a total of 1384 “white animals”.
Then the list continues with 8 he-goats (urīṣu), 1 she-goat (enzu), 1 young he-goat (lalû) and the term for young she-goat (unīqu) with no indication of a number – subtotal the second partial total counts, in fact, 10 “black animals”.
The definitive number of sheep and goats (ṣēnu) belonging to the Eanna is then given: 1398.
- Legacy Paraphrase
List of livestock, with subtotals and a grand total. No herdsman. No date.
list The tablet lists 1000 fertile? ewes (lahru tālittu? The term tālittu is broken), 94+[x] male lambs (kalūmu), 200 female lambs (parratu) – subtotal a total of 1384 “white animals”. list Then the list continues with 8 he-goats (urīṣu), 1 she-goat (enzu), 1 young he-goat (lalû) and the term for young she-goat (unīqu) with no indication of a number – subtotal the second partial total counts, in fact, 10 “black animals”. grand total The definitive number of sheep and goats (ṣēnu) belonging to the Eanna is then given: 1398.
Further Information
- Type and Content
- Inventories
- last updated by
- Marie Young, Feb. 4, 2026, 12:39 p.m.
- Imported (Person, Date)
- Stephania Ermidoro, Kathleen Abraham (20/09/2023)
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- AUWE 5