Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 3897
- Museum No.
- GCBC 167
- CDLI P-Identifier
- Place of issue
- No place
- Type and Content
- Memorandum (taẖsistu ana la mašê)
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Dossier
- None
- Period
- NB
- Year BCE
- None
- Editio princeps
- GCCI 1
Content
- Paraphrase
Note regarding bronze put at the disposal of a smith. Dated.
This memorandum is written in the 1st person sg. by an unidentified temple official, regarding 8½ minas from two broken (hepû) pounders (māhiṣātu) of A; note that the word tahsistu (memorandum) is not mentioned in the text. It was intended for internal use among the accountants of the temple.
The writer states that “When I melted them down (patāqu) (some) bronze from the temple store (makkūru) was added (radû, D) to it (ana muhhi) and it became (tarû, wr. gur) 8⅔ minas again.”
The note concludes that A has now a total of 8⅔ minas, for 2 bronze pounders, at his disposal (ina pāni).
A= Arad-Innin/Nabû-naˀid, probably a bronze smith (though his profession is not yet attested in any text), see Payne 2007 (PhD diss.), 295
- Transliteration
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Nbn. 03-III-12
further information
- Imported (Person, Date)
- Yuval Levavi, Kathleen Abraham (10/09/2023)
- Legacy NaBuCCo ID
- None