Basic Metadata

NaBuCCo ID
3831
Museum No.
W 18216,29
Primary Publication
AUWE 11 196
Place of issue
Uruk city
Regional setting
Uruk region
Archive
Eanna temple
Period
None
Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
XXX. yy-mm-dd

Digeanna

Van Driel Files
5 a
Text Form
List (various verbs, or also no verb)
Legal Purpose
Inventory (occasionally amāru)
Transaction Type
not applicable
Domain (Eanna)
Personnel management and labor allocation
Format of the tablet
portrait

Content

Paraphrase

List with numbers and personal names, possibly ration list or payroll. Very fragmentary.

Fragment of a larger tablet listing workmen, originally grouped according to their work gangs (ṣābu): each personal name is preceded by a number (in the extant fragment, always the number 1) and followed by the affiliation. It could have been either a ration list (with the ration amounting to 1 measure of grain per person) or a payroll (the wage amounting to 1 shekel per person).

Some of the names listed are:

Amīl-Nanāya

 

Legacy Paraphrase

List with numbers and personal names, possibly ration list or payroll. Very fragmentary.

Fragment of a larger tablet listing workmen, originally grouped according to their work gangs (ṣābu): each personal name is preceded by a number (in the extant fragment, always the number 1) and followed by the affiliation. It could have been either a ration list (with the ration amounting to 1 measure of grain per person) or a payroll (the wage amounting to 1 shekel per person).


Further Information

Type and Content
Indeterminate administrative texts
last updated by
Kira Awege, Dec. 29, 2025, 1:14 p.m.
Imported (Person, Date)
Stephania Ermidoro, Kathleen Abraham (17/09/2023)