Basic Metadata

NaBuCCo ID
3741
Museum No.
W 18207,48 + Wy 55
Primary Publication
AUWE 5 098
Place of issue
Uruk city
Regional setting
Uruk region
Archive
Eanna temple
Period
Neo-Babylonian
Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
Npl. 19-XI-10
Date BCE
27/01/606

Digeanna

Van Driel Files
5 b
Text Form
List (various verbs, or also no verb)
Legal Purpose
Other or sfs (various verbs)
Transaction Type
multiple transactions
Domain (Eanna)
Personnel management and labor allocation
Format of the tablet
square

Content

Paraphrase

List of barley disbursements (for rations?) to multiple recipients. Fragmentary. Dated.

The tablet registers the distribution of 0;2 kor (c. 72 l) or 0;1 kor (c. 36 l.) (of barley): they are given (no verb) by the Eanna to no less than 7 individuals, likely as food rations (though the term kurummatu never appears), for the months Ṭebēt (X), Šabāṭ (XI), and possibly Addar (XII).

The recipients cannot be identified: only one reference to a “gardener” (nukaribbu) is extant, but in a broken context.

The three allotments recorded on the obverse of the tablet are deducted (ina libbi) from the share of Ardia, the “third man” (tašlīšu). One more ration listed on the reverse is said to have been deducted (ina libbi) from Nanāya-…’s share.

 

Legacy Paraphrase

List of barley disbursements (for rations?) to multiple recipients. Fragmentary. Dated.

The tablet registers the distribution of 0;2 kor (c. 72 l) or 0;1 kor (c. 36 l.) (of barley): they are given (no verb) by the Eanna to no less than 7 individuals, likely as food rations (though the term kurummatu never appears), for the months Ṭebēt (X), Šabāṭ (XI), and possibly Addar (XII). The recipients cannot be identified: only one reference to a “gardener” (nukaribbu) is extant, but in a broken context. The three allotments recorded on the obverse of the tablet are deducted (ina libbi) from the share of A, the “third man” (tašlīšu). One more ration listed on the reverse is said to have been deducted (ina libbi) from B’s share.

A = Ardia, “third man”; B = Nanāya-…


Further Information

Type and Content
Multiple (list)
last updated by
Kira Awege, Jan. 28, 2026, 10:12 a.m.