Basic Metadata

NaBuCCo ID
3754
Museum No.
W 18230,1
Primary Publication
AUWE 5 111
Place of issue
Uruk city
Regional setting
Uruk region
Archive
Eanna temple
Period
Neo-Babylonian
Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
Nbn. x+4-V-19
Inferred date
542

Digeanna

Van Driel Files
12 a
Text Form
Receipt (maḫāru, eṭēru)
Legal Purpose
Allocation (ina pāni)
Transaction Type
transactional (outgoing)
Domain (Eanna)
Personnel management and labor allocation
Format of the tablet
unclear

Content

Paraphrase

Single transaction with multiple entries: issue of dates for rations. Very fragmentary. Dated.

Fragment of a tablet that records the distribution of dates to multiple individuals, who are labelled as bakers (nuḫattimu). The first line of the obverse must have served as heading and it was separated from the rest of the text by a horizontal line; now, only the word “dates” can still be read, any other information written at the beginning of the line is lost in a lacuna.  The text continues with a list of no less than 8 individuals who received (našû, wr. GIŠ) the allotted dates. On the reverse, more personal names are listed with the indication that the record refers to rations (kurummatu) for the month(s?) m.IV and/till(?) m.VI.

Note that the document is dated in the month m.V.

Legacy Paraphrase

Single transaction with multiple entries: issue of dates for rations. Very fragmentary. Dated.

Fragment of a tablet that records the distribution of dates to multiple individuals, who are labelled as bakers (nuḫattimu). The first line of the obverse must have served as heading and it was separated from the rest of the text by a horizontal line; now, only the word “dates” can still be read, any other information written at the beginning of the line is lost in a lacuna.  The text continues with a list of no less than 8 individuals who received (našû, wr. GIŠ) the allotted dates. On the reverse, more personal names are listed with the indication that the record refers to rations (kurummatu) for the month(s?) Dûzu (IV) and/till(?) Ulūl (VI). Note that the document is dated in the month Abu (V).


Further Information

Type and Content
single transaction
last updated by
Kira Awege, Feb. 6, 2026, 10:15 a.m.