Basic Metadata

NaBuCCo ID
3692
Museum No.
W 18204,47
CDLI P-Identifier
Place of issue
Uruk
Type and Content
Inventories
Archive
Eanna temple
Dossier
None
Period
NB
Year BCE
615
Editio princeps
AUWE 5

Content

Paraphrase

Tabulated list of livestock allocated to multiple herdsmen. Fragmentary. Dated.

The tablet is organised in a tabulated form with 3 columns bearing headings. On the obverse, there is a list of clean bulls (puhālu ellu) and male calfs (bīru) that the Eanna entrusted (uncertain: the verb is not written)* in the hands (ina qātē) of the herdsmen (nāqidu). The animals are divided between (i) “pure” (ellu) and (ii) “for the plough” (ša epinni), with (iii, no heading) the names of the individual herdsmen added in the third column. Then the obverse breaks off but it may have contained a summary total and the name of the man held liable for these animals (A1?), as is the case on the reverse. The animals listed on the reverse are (i) "cows" (littu) and (ii) "male calfs" (bīru) with (iii) the names of "the appointed herdsmen's" (ša ina qātē) in the last column: the Eanna put these animals, 16 in total, under A’s responsibility (ina pāni).

(*) Differently, Gehlken 1990, 48: the animals were collected from the herdsmen.

A1? = broken?; A2? = Rēmūtu

Transliteration
Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
Npl. 10+-VIII-20

further information

Imported (Person, Date)
Stephania Ermidoro, Kathleen Abraham (20/09/2023)
Legacy NaBuCCo ID
None