Wx 20

Multiple transactions of the same type: per diem allotment of comestibles to prebendholders (for the preparation of the offerings).

The first line, broken, must have included the customary introductory reference to basic foodstuffs, distributed to a class of prebendary workers (brewers and/or bakers) as allotments for a six months period, i.e. from m.IV to m.VI.

The entries are organised by month and separated by horizontal lines; the distributions are recorded with the usual formula “n (amount of goods) for X days (of cultic service), (allotted to) PN” (n ša X ūmu ša PN). Specific reference is made for which month and which god (pāni DN) the workers received the allotted goods.

Recipients include: 

l.2 Bēl-kāṣir; l.3 Šamaš-šumu-iddin, l.4 Šākin-šumi, Silim-Bēl and Nabû-šumu-līšir, l.5 Ṣillāya, Arad-Innin, l.6 Bānia, 7. Silim-Bēl and Nabû-šumu-līšir, l.8 Nergal-ušallim, Nabû-bēlšunu, l.9 Nabû-bēlšunu/Gimillu, 10.  Ṣillāya and Arad-Innin, l.11 Nabû-gamil, l.12 Nergal-ušallim and Mušallim-Marduk, 13. Nabû-šumu-ibni and Silim-Bēl, l.14 Nabû-šumu-ukīn and Nabû-šarru-aḫḫēšu, l.15 Rēmūt, Nabû-aḫḫē-iddin, l.16 Rēmut, Nabû-aḫḫē-iddin, 17. Šākin-šumi, Nabû-aḫḫē-iddin

The formulary of this text follows the one described by Freydank 1971, 25-28.