Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 3757
- Museum No.
- W 18212,13
- Primary Publication
- AUWE 5 114
- Place of issue
- Uruk city
- Regional setting
- Uruk region
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Neo-Babylonian
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Nbk. 36-XII-17
- Date BCE
- 06/03/568
Digeanna
- Van Driel Files
- 5 f
- 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
- square
Content
- Paraphrase
Single transaction: receipt for beer. Dated.
Gimillu(/Ardia) received (maḫāru Stat.) (from the Eanna) 0;0.5 kor (c. 30 l) of beer, to be distributed among (ana lit. "for") the gardeners (nukaribbu) working in the orchard (kirû) located at the gate of the akītu-house.
In the first line, the scribe has mistakenly written the sign for “milk”, GA, instead of the one for “beer”, KAŠ.
- Legacy Paraphrase
Single transaction: receipt for beer. Dated.
A received (mahāru Stat.) (from the Eanna) 0;0.5 kor (c. 30 l) of beer, to be distributed among (ana lit. "for") the gardeners (nukaribbu) working in the orchard (kirû) located at the gate of the akītu-house. In the first line, the scribe has mistakenly written the sign for “milk”, GA, instead of the one for “beer”, KAŠ.
A = Gimillu(/Ardia)
Further Information
- Type and Content
- single transaction
- last updated by
- Kira Awege, Feb. 6, 2026, 11:12 a.m.