Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 3751
- Museum No.
- W 18207,26
- Primary Publication
- AUWE 5 108
- Place of issue
- Uruk city
- Regional setting
- Uruk region
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Neo-Babylonian
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Nbk. 33-IX-20
- Date BCE
- 13/12/572
Digeanna
- Van Driel Files
- 5 b
- Text Form
- Receipt (maḫāru, eṭēru)
- Legal Purpose
- Administrative receipt ((ina qātē) maḫir; eṭir; also 'no verb')
- Transaction Type
- transactional (outgoing)
- Domain (Eanna)
- Personnel management and labor allocation
- Format of the tablet
- landscape
- Sealings
- True
Content
- Paraphrase
Single transaction: issue of salt. Dated.
Nabû-iddin/Šamaš-erība received (maḫāru Stat.) 15 talents (c. 450 kg) of salt for (ana) the work gang (ṣābu) of the substitute man (ḫalpu*); 1 talent (c. 3 kg) is for (ana) Nabû-kiširru-idin. The tablet is sealed and dated.
Note
(*) For halpu “substitute man” see Kleber, AOAT 358, p. 111.
Has a seal imression on the reverse (AUWE 18, 132).
- Legacy Paraphrase
Single transaction: issue of salt. Dated.
A received (mahāru Stat.) 15 talents (c. 450 kg) of salt for (ana) the work gang (ṣābu) of the substitute man (halpu*); 1 talent (c. 3 kg) is for (ana) B. The tablet is sealed and dated.
(*) For halpu “substitute man” see Kleber, AOAT 358, p. 111.
A = Nabû-iddin/Šamaš-erība; B = Nabû-kiširru-idin
Further Information
- Type and Content
- single transaction
- last updated by
- Kira Awege, Feb. 13, 2026, 10:08 a.m.