Basic Metadata

NaBuCCo ID
3682
Museum No.
W 18234
Primary Publication
AUWE 5 039
Place of issue
Uruk city
Regional setting
Uruk region
Archive
Eanna temple
Period
None
Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
XXX. yy-mm-dd

Digeanna

Van Driel Files
7 f
Text Form
List (various verbs, or also no verb)
Legal Purpose
Balanced account (epēš nikkassī)
Transaction Type
transactional (incoming)
Domain (Eanna)
Craft production (non-cult related)
Format of the tablet
landscape

Content

Paraphrase

Balanced list of wool delivered by multiple herdsmen. No date.

The tablet provides information about wool “of” (ša), - i.e. that was brought to the temple by-, its herdsmen (nāqidu) in order to (ana) be weighed out / stored as working material (ḫāṭu, E. Payne unpubl. PhD 2007, p. 64).

Both the delivered and the still outstanding charges are listed, as follows: 

Šamaš-ēreš/Tabnia gave (ša A, lit. of A, no verb) 19 talents and 14 minas, he still owes (rēhu) 55 minas; Nanāya-zēru-ēreš gave 6 talents and 45 minas, he still owes 15 minas; Gimillu gave 7 talents; Aḫu-iqīša gave 8 talents and 20 minas; Anu-zēru-ibni gave 10 talents, he still owes 8 talents; Ardia gave 7 talents and 10 minas, he still owes 1 talent and 15 minas.

 

Legacy Paraphrase

Balanced list of wool delivered by multiple herdsmen. No date.

The tablet provides information about wool “of” (ša), - i.e. that was brought to the temple by-, its herdsmen (nāqidu) in order to (ana) be weighed out / stored as working material (hāṭu, E. Payne unpubl. PhD 2007, p. 64). Both the delivered and the still outstanding charges are listed, as follows: A1 gave (ša A, lit. of A, no verb) 19 talents and 14 minas, he still owes (rēhu) 55 minas; A2 gave 6 talents and 45 minas, he still owes 15 minas; A3 gave 7 talents; A4 gave 8 talents and 20 minas; A5 gave 10 talents, he still owes 8 talents; A6 gave 7 talents and 10 minas, he still owes 1 talent and 15 minas.

A1 = Šamaš-ēreš/Tabnia; A2 = Nanāya-zēru-ēreš; A3 = Gimillu; A4 = Ahu-iqīša; A5 = Anu-zēru-ibni; A6 = Ardia


Further Information

Type and Content
Balanced accounts
last updated by
Kira Awege, Feb. 2, 2026, 9:40 a.m.
Imported (Person, Date)
Stephania Ermidoro, Kathleen Abraham (05/09/2023)
Mentioned in the following publication(s)
AUWE 5