Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 3699
- Museum No.
- W 18336,1
- Primary Publication
- AUWE 5 056
- Place of issue
- Uruk city
- Regional setting
- Uruk region
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Neo-Babylonian
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Nbk. 30-X-25
- Date BCE
- 20/01/574
Digeanna
- Van Driel Files
- 10 q
- Text Form
- Receipt (maḫāru, eṭēru)
- Legal Purpose
- Administrative receipt ((ina qātē) maḫir; eṭir; also 'no verb')
- Transaction Type
- transactional (incoming)
- Domain (Eanna)
- Animal husbandry
- Format of the tablet
- portrait
Content
- Paraphrase
Single transaction: receipt for ducks from the temple’s poultry keeper. Dated.
The Eanna receives (maḫāru Stat) 13(?) ducks (paspasu) from Ṭāb-šār-ištar, the poultry keeper (rēˀi iṣṣuri). The ducks are labelled ša EDIN, which means that they were either “from the open country” (ṣēru) or a type of shelducks (ša ḫurri).
Note:
More at Janković 2004, 13.
- Legacy Paraphrase
Single transaction: receipt for ducks from the temple’s poultry keeper. Dated.
The Eanna receives (mahāru Stat) 13(?) ducks (paspasu) from A, the poultry keeper (rēˀi iṣṣuri). The ducks are labelled ša EDIN, which means that they were either “from the open country” (ṣēru) or a type of shelducks (ša hurri). More at Janković 2004, 13.
A = Ṭāb-šār-ištar, poultry keeper (rēˀi iṣṣur)
Further Information
- Type and Content
- Record of transfer
- last updated by
- Kira Awege, Feb. 2, 2026, 9:50 a.m.
- Imported (Person, Date)
- Stephania Ermidoro, Kathleen Abraham (20/09/2023)
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- AUWE 5