Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 3811
- Museum No.
- W 18239,8
- Primary Publication
- AUWE 11 175
- Place of issue
- Uruk city
- Regional setting
- Uruk region
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Neo-Babylonian
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Nbk. yy-mm-dd
- Inferred date
- 604–562
Digeanna
- Van Driel Files
- 6 d
- Text Form
- List (various verbs, or also no verb)
- Legal Purpose
- Issue (nadin)
- Transaction Type
- transactional (outgoing)
- Domain (Eanna)
- Personnel management and labor allocation
- Format of the tablet
- portrait
Content
- Paraphrase
List of barley and emmer disbursements to prebendaries. Very fragmentary. Dated.
The opening lines of the text mention a broken date in the reign of Nebuchadnezzar and 800 measures (mašīḫu) of barley as well as 24 measures of emmer (having been delivered) to (ana) the temple property (makkūru). The rest of the obverse is unwritten.
The reverse provides details on extractions made from (ina libbi) these amounts: 20+[x] measures of barley from (ina) the allotment period (maššartu) of month … (broken) (were given to) Nabû-bān-aḫi, son of Šulāya; 10 measures to Lūṣi-ana-nūri, son of Aplāya; 16 measures from (ina) the allotment days(?) (ūmu) to Ibni-Ištar, the launderer (pūṣaya); 10 measures of emmer from (ina) the allotment period of Ṭebēt (X) (were given to) Nabû-šumu-līšir; 2 measures to Lūṣi-ana-nūri, son of Aplāya; 4 measures to Nabû-bān-aḫi, son of Šulāya. Rest broken off.
- Legacy Paraphrase
List of barley and emmer disbursements to prebendaries. Very fragmentary. Dated.
The opening lines of the text mention a broken date in the reign of Nebuchadnezzar and 800 measures (mašīhu) of barley as well as 24 measures of emmer (having been delivered) to (ana) the temple property (makkūru). The rest of the obverse is unwritten. The reverse provides details on extractions made from (ina libbi) these amounts: 20+[x] measures of barley from (ina) the allotment period (maššartu) of month … (broken) (were given to) A ; 10 measures to B; 16 measures from (ina) the allotment days(?) (ūmu) to C, the launderer (pūṣaya); 10 measures of emmer from (ina) the allotment period of Ṭebēt (X) (were given to) D; 2 measures to B; 4 measures to A. Rest broken off.
A = Nabû-bāni-ahi/Šulāya; B = Lūṣi-ana-nūri/Aplāya; C = Ibni-Ištar, launderer (pūṣaja); D = Nabû-šumu-līšir
Further Information
- Type and Content
- Inventories
- last updated by
- Marie Young, June 5, 2026, 12:10 p.m.
- Imported (Person, Date)
- Stephania Ermidoro, Kathleen Abraham (17/09/2023)