Basic Metadata

NaBuCCo ID
3872
Museum No.
W 18209,99
Primary Publication
AUWE 11 237
Place of issue
Uruk city
Regional setting
Uruk region
Archive
Eanna temple
Period
Neo-Babylonian
Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
Nbk. 36-I-10+x
Date BCE
569

Digeanna

Van Driel Files
4 e
Text Form
Receipt (maḫāru, eṭēru)
Legal Purpose
unclear (...)
Transaction Type
unclear
Domain (Eanna)
Animal husbandry
Format of the tablet
unclear

Content

Paraphrase

Fragment of a tablet related to goats. Dated.

In the first lines the animals are listed: 5 she-goats (enzu, reconstructed), 1 young he-goat (lalû), 3 young she-goats (unīqu, reconstructed): in total 9 goats, whose price (šīmu) amounts to 3 shekels of silver. The following lines are too broken to offer any reconstruction.

Only four personal names are extant:

Arad-Ištar

Nabû-…

Gimillu

Nabû-šumu-iddin

Legacy Paraphrase

Fragment of a tablet related to goats. Dated.
In the first lines the animals are listed: 5 she-goats (enzu, reconstructed), 1 young he-goat (lalû), 3 young she-goats (unīqu, reconstructed): in total 9 goats, whose price (šīmu) amounts to 3 shekels of silver. The following lines are too broken to offer any reconstruction: only four personal names (A-D) are extant.

A = Arad-Ištar/Innin..; B = Nabû-…; C = Gimilly; D = Nabû-šumu-iddin

 


Further Information

Type and Content
Indeterminate administrative texts
last updated by
Marie Young, Jan. 8, 2026, 2:07 p.m.
Imported (Person, Date)
Stephania Ermidoro, Kathleen Abraham (17/09/2023)