Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 3818
- Museum No.
- W 18207,51
- Primary Publication
- AUWE 11 182
- Place of issue
- Uruk city
- Regional setting
- Uruk region
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Neo-Babylonian
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Nbk. 21-mm-06
- Date BCE
- 584
Digeanna
- Van Driel Files
- 4 e
- Text Form
- List (various verbs, or also no verb)
- Legal Purpose
- Allocation (ina pāni)
- Transaction Type
- transactional (outgoing)
- Domain (Eanna)
- Personnel management and labor allocation
- Format of the tablet
- portrait
Content
- Paraphrase
List of silver expenditures for rations to multiple recipients (workmen). Dated.
The text begins with a heading that explains its content: it records the giving out of salary (kurummatu) in the form of silver(*). In the remaining text, the document lists amounts of shekels in connection to those who receive them. In most cases, the individuals are not recorded by their names but by their occupation: one finds among them a smith (nappāḫu), a master builder (arad ekalli), a winnower (habbišu), a leatherworker (aškāpu), a reedworker (atkuppu) and a launderer (pūṣaja). In two instances, individuals are grouped under the formula “the workmen of PN” (ṣābu ša PN).
(*)Lines 1-2 read […] / [kaspu ša] ana kurummāti na[dna?], wr. S[UM-na]. Between a record of transfer and an inventory.
Further Information
- Type and Content
- Inventories
- last updated by
- Kira Awege, Jan. 29, 2026, 4:15 p.m.
- Imported (Person, Date)
- Stephania Ermidoro, Kathleen Abraham (17/09/2023)