Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 3793
- Museum No.
- W 18209,78
- Primary Publication
- AUWE 5 157
- Place of issue
- Uruk city
- Regional setting
- Uruk region
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Neo-Babylonian
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Nbk. yy-mm-dd
Digeanna
- Van Driel Files
- 4 b
- Text Form
- Receipt (maḫāru, eṭēru)
- Legal Purpose
- Administrative receipt ((ina qātē) maḫir; eṭir; also 'no verb')
- Transaction Type
- transactional (outgoing)
- Format of the tablet
- landscape
Content
- Paraphrase
Single transaction: receipt/issue (?) of silver for oil. Fragmentary. Dated.
Nabû-Bēlšunu received (maḫāru Stat., mostly reconstructed) ½ mina of silver from (ina qātē) Nabû-aḫu-iddin/Nanāya-ēreš for (ana, the purchase of?) oil for (ana) the workmen (ṣābu) of Ta-KAL(uncl.).
Other reconstructions are possible, see Gehlken, taking the Eanna as the implied recipient of the silver and Ta-KAL(uncl.) the son of Nabû-Bēlšunu.
- Legacy Paraphrase
Single transaction: receipt/issue (?) of silver for oil. Fragmentary. Dated.
C received (mahāru Stat., mostly reconstructed) ½ mina of silver from (ina qātē) A for (ana, the purchase of?) oil for (ana) B’s workmen (ṣābu). Other reconstructions are possible, see Gehlken, taking the Eanna as the implied recipient of the silver and B the son of C.
A = Nabû-ahu-iddin/Nanāya-ēreš; B = Ta-KAL(uncl.). He was either the son of Nabû-Bēlšunu, or he is mentioned without affiliation and C = Nabû-Bēlšunu
Further Information
- Type and Content
- Single instance
- last updated by
- Kira Awege, Feb. 10, 2026, 10:24 a.m.