Basic Metadata

NaBuCCo ID
3920
Museum No.
WHM 1664
CDLI P-Identifier
Place of issue
No place
Type and Content
Record of transfer
Archive
Eanna temple
Dossier
None
Period
NB
Year BCE
None
Editio princeps
Sack 1994 (Documents)

Content

Paraphrase

Single transaction: delivery of silver (and a cow) to the Eanna temple (reckoned for barley). Dated.

The Eanna temple received (maḫāru, Stat.) from A, the canal inspector (gugallu) of Bīt-Simmagir, a grand total of 43 minas of silver, the price of 1000 kor of barley, in 0;2 kor (per shekel of silver).

The payment was made of the following: 4 minas ⅓ shekel of silver for a mature cow (áb.sal.máḫ?), 15⅔ minas of cash (lit. weighed, ḫâṭu) silver, and 23 minas of silver, the price of 2 minas 29 shekel of gold, in 9¼ shekels of silver (per shekel of gold).

Names of 4 witnesses (ina ušuzzu) (X1–4), and a scribe (X5).

 

Duplicate: Truro, 11, dated 3 days later 09.IX.01 Nbk

* Janković/Weszeli 2014 contains significant corrections to the original publication by Sack.

 

A= Nabû-nāṣir//Aḫu-līšir, canal inspector (gugallu) of Bīt-Simmagir;

witnesses: X1= Ninurta-šarru-uṣur, royal resident (qīpu) of Eanna; X2= Nabû-nādin-šumi (/Bēl-šumu-iškun//Dābibī), the temple administrator (šatammu), known to be the brother of X5; X3= Kabtīya(/Marduk-nāṣir)//Irʼānu; X4= Nabû-ēṭir-napšāti (/Bēl-lēʼi)//Šigūʼa; scribe: X5= Marduk-ēṭir/Bēl-šumu-iškun (//Dābibī), the scribe of Eanna, known to be the brother of X2

 

+ Add to bibliography: Janković  Bojana and Weszeli Michaela, 2014, Neues zur Verwendung von maḫir im Eanna-Archiv eine Anomalie?, in: Zoltán Csabai (ed.), Studies in Economic and Social History of the Ancient Near East in Memory of Péter Vargyas, Budapest, 673–682.

 

Transliteration
Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
Nbk. 01-IX-06

further information

Imported (Person, Date)
Yuval Levavi, Kathleen Abraham (12/09/2023)
Legacy NaBuCCo ID
None