Basic Metadata

NaBuCCo ID
3719
Museum No.
W 18213,12
Primary Publication
AUWE 5 076
Place of issue
Uruk city
Regional setting
Uruk region
Archive
Eanna temple
Period
Neo-Babylonian
Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
Nbk. 41-mm-dd
Date BCE
564

Digeanna

Van Driel Files
6 c
Text Form
List (various verbs, or also no verb)
Legal Purpose
Withdrawal (našû)
Transaction Type
transactional (outgoing)
Domain (Eanna)
Personnel management and labor allocation
Format of the tablet
unclear

Content

Paraphrase

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

The first lines of the text provide the date and the period to which the subsequent allotments refer, i.e. six months of Nbk 41 from m.X to m.III.

The entries are separated by horizontal lines and record such distributions with the formula “n (amount of goods) for X days (of cultic service), (allotted to) PN, he has received” (n ša X ūmu ša PN našû [wr. GIŠ], sometimes also with the addition of a-pil  “he is paid”).

Among the recipients whose names are preserved in the text:

45 1/3 for 8 days: Ina-tēšî-ēṭir (and) Zēria withdrew (našû, wr.GIŠ); 45 1/3 for 8 days: Nabû-mušētiq-uddê; […] Balāssu and Ea withdrew; 28 1/3 for 5 days: Nergal-iddin and Ibni-Innin withdrew and it was paid (apil) […] Nabû-nāṣir withdrew…17 for 3 days: Gimillu withdrew; 17 for 3 days: Aplāya (and) Gimillu [withdrew] […] Nergal-iddin (and) Ibni-Innin withdrew; 11 1/3 for 2 days: Šumu-iddin (and) Gimillu withdrew; 45 and a third for 8 days: Zēria withdrew […] Nabû-naṣir withdrew; 59(?) ½ for 10 ½ days: Ibni-Innin and Ina-tēšî-ēṭir and Nabû-nāṣir withdrew; 45 1/3 for 8 days of Nabû-ēṭir-napšāti […] Nergal-iddin withdrew; 17 for 3 days Gimillu withdrew; 17 for 3 days: Šumu-uṣur (and) Nabû-nāṣir withdrew; 45 1/3 for 8 days of the king: Nergal-iddin withdrew […] 22 2/3 for 4 days: Marduk (and) Zēria withdrew; 25 ½ for 4 ½ days Gimillu withdrew; […] Balāssu and Ea withdrew; 20 minus 1/6 for 3 ½ days of Mušēzib-Bēl and Zēria withdrew, it was paid. […] Nergal-iddin withdrew; 31 1/6 for 5 ½ days: Marduk-šumu-līšir and Nabû-nāṣir withdrew; 17 for 3 days: Nergal-šumu-ibni, Balāssu and Ea withdrew […]; 45 1/3 for 8 days of the king: Gimillu withdrew; [39 2]/3 for 7 days: Marduk (and) Gimillu withdrew; 17 for 3 days: Aḫḫēa, Balāssu and Ea withdrew, 20 minus 1/6 for 3 ½ days […] Balāssu and Ea withdrew; 45 and 1/3 for 8 days: Kiribti (and) Gimillu withdrew; 45 1/3 for 8 days: Balāṭu […] Gimillu withdrew; 45 1/3 for 8 days: Mušallim-Marduk (and) Nergal-iddin withdrew; 3 minus 1/6 for ½ day: Rēmut, Ea […] Gimillu withdrew; 42 1/3 for 7 ½ days: Rēmut, Ea withdrew; 11 1/3 for 2 days: Marduk-šumu-ibni (and) Ea withdrew […] Nabû-nāṣir withdrew, 45 1/3 for 8 days:  Nabû-ušallim and Balāssu and Ea withdrew; 34 for 6 days […] Marduk-šāpik-zēri, Balāssu, Ea withdrew; 22 2/3 […] Bēl-ušallim (and) Nabû-nāṣir withdrew [...] 13? ½ days: Šamaš-zēru-iqīša (and) Šamaš-udammiq withdrew…(rest broken)

Note

Some of the names are also attested in VS 20 93 and AUWE 5 73.

Legacy Paraphrase

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

The first lines of the text provide the date and the period to which the subsequent allotments refer, i.e. six months from Ṭebēt (X) to Simān (III) of Nebuchadnezzar’s 41st regnal year.

The entries are separated by horizontal lines and record such distributions with the formula “n (amount of goods) for X days (of cultic service), (allotted to) PN, he withdraw” (n ša X ūmu ša PN našû [wr. GIŠ], sometimes also with the addition of a-pil  “he is paid”).


Further Information

Type and Content
Record of transfer
last updated by
Marie Young, March 12, 2026, 4:19 p.m.
Imported (Person, Date)
Stephania Ermidoro, Kathleen Abraham (21/09/2023)
Mentioned in the following publication(s)
AUWE 5