Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 3753
- Museum No.
- W 18212, 12
- Primary Publication
- AUWE 5 110
- Place of issue
- Uruk city
- Regional setting
- Uruk region
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Neo-Babylonian
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Nbk. 42-VI-01
- Date BCE
- 19/08/563
Digeanna
- Van Driel Files
- 5 b
- Legal Purpose
- Withdrawal (našû)
- Transaction Type
- transactional (outgoing)
- Domain (Eanna)
- Personnel management and labor allocation
- Format of the tablet
- landscape
Content
- Paraphrase
Multiple transactions of the same type: issue of cress and salt. Dated.
The tablet records 2 different transactions. On the obverse, one reads that Balāṭu received (našû, wr. GIŠ) from the Eanna 0;1 kor (36 l.) of cress from the harû-ceremony. The text continues on the lower edge and the reverse, acknowledging that Šamaš-iddin/Šamaš-uballiṭ received (našû, wr. GIŠ) 0;1.2 kor (48 l.) of salt and 0;1.2 kor (48 l.) of cress, as food allowance (kurummatu) for his 4 workers (ṣābu) for Ulūl.
- Legacy Paraphrase
Multiple transactions of the same type: issue of cress and salt. Dated.
The tablet records 2 different transactions. On the obverse, one reads that A received (našû, wr. GIŠ) from the Eanna 0;1 kor (36 l.) of cress from the harû-ceremony. The text continues on the lower edge and the reverse, acknowledging that B received (našû, wr. GIŠ) 0;1.2 kor (48 l.) of salt and 0;1.2 kor (48 l.) of cress, as food ration (kurummatu) for his 4 workers (ṣābu) for m.VI.
A = Balāṭu; B = Šamaš-iddin/Šamaš-uballiṭ
Further Information
- Type and Content
- Multiple transactions
- last updated by
- Kira Awege, Feb. 4, 2026, 1:26 p.m.