W 18201,21 + W 18202,30

Basic Metadata

NaBuCCo ID
3691
Museum No.
W 18201,21 + W 18202,30
Primary Publication
AUWE 5 048
Place of issue
Uruk city
Regional setting
Uruk region
Archive
Eanna temple
Period
Neo-Babylonian
Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
Nbk. 35-VIII-22
Date BCE
24/11/570

Digeanna

Van Driel Files
10 c
Text Form
List (various verbs, or also no verb)
Legal Purpose
Inspection (amirtu)
Transaction Type
transactional (outgoing)
Domain (Eanna)
Animal husbandry
Format of the tablet
unclear

Content

Paraphrase

List of animal intake (and outlays?) for multiple herdsmen. Fragmentary.

The obverse of the tablet lists 57 cultic clean (ellu) and perfect (tamīmu) bulls (puḫālu), 56 branded (šindu) bulls, 38 oxen (alpu) that are 2 years old, cultic clean (ellu) and perfect (tamīmu), 16 branded (šindu) oxen, 2 […] oxen (details lost in a lacuna), 34 adult cows (littu), 1 male calf (bīru) and 2 female calfs (sāḫirtu). 

In total 197 head of cattle, according to the counting (minûtu) from the 22nd of m.VIII to the [xth] of m.IX of Nbk 35: income these animals have been delivered by (ina qātē abāku Stat.) the herdsmen (nāqidu). 

The rest of the tablet is in poor condition and the text is only partially readable: Ibni-Ištar/Balātu is mentioned in connection with a broken amount of bulls, and after a large lacuna 11 ½ shekels are said to be available to Nabû-…. 

In the final line, a total amounting to 204 head of cattle is recorded.

 

Legacy Paraphrase

List of animal intake (and outlays?) for multiple herdsmen. Fragmentary.

list The obverse of the tablet lists 57 cultic clean (ellu) and perfect (tamīmu) bulls (puhālu), 56 branded (šindu) bulls, 38 oxen (alpu) that are 2 years old, cultic clean (ellu) and perfect (tamīmu), 16 branded (šindu) oxen, 2 […] oxen (details lost in a lacuna), 34 adult cows (littu), 1 male calf (bīru) and 2 female calfs (sāhirtu). total In total 197 head of cattle, according to the counting (minûtu) from the 22nd of Arahsamna (VIII) to the [xth] of Kislīm (IX) of Nebuchadnezzar’s 35th regnal year: incomethese animals have been delivered by (ina qātē abāku Stat.) the herdsmen (nāqidu). outlays? The rest of the tablet is in poor condition and the text is only partially readable: A is mentioned in connection with a broken amount of bulls, and after a large lacuna 11 ½ shekels are said to be available to B. total In the final line, a total amounting to 204 head of cattle is recorded.

 

A = Ibni-Ištar/Balātu; B = Nabû-…


Further Information

Type and Content
Inventories
last updated by
Kira Awege, Feb. 13, 2026, 10:02 a.m.
Imported (Person, Date)
Stephania Ermidoro, Kathleen Abraham (17/09/2023)
Mentioned in the following publication(s)
AUWE 5