Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 3922
- Museum No.
- WHM 1662
- Primary Publication
- Sack 1994 (Documents) 07
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P421513
- Place of issue
- No place
- Regional setting
- Uruk city
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Neo-Babylonian
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Nbn. 06-XI-15
- Date BCE
- 03/02/549
Digeanna
- Van Driel Files
- 7 a
- Text Form
- Note (...)
- Legal Purpose
- Allocation (ina pāni)
- Transaction Type
- transactional (outgoing)
- Domain (Eanna)
- Craft production (non-cult related)
- Format of the tablet
- landscape
Content
- Paraphrase
1 shekel gold, income (irbu) of Nabû-šulum-šarru, chief butcher (rab ṭābiḫi), (and) ½ shekels gold, equivalent of 5 ½ shekels silver, withdrawn (našû) from Šalti-ili. From the total of 1 ½ shekels gold, 1/5 […] were lost in the kiln (utūnu). The remainder of 1shekel ¼ 1/10 gold is at the disposal (ina pāni) Bēl-na’id and Ištar-šumu-ibni, goldsmiths, for further processing.
- Legacy Paraphrase
Note ina pani. Multiple deliveries of gold to the temple and the gold’s reallocation to be processed. Dated.
The tablet concerns incoming: 1 shekel of gold, the general income (irbu) of A1, the chief butcher (rab ṭābiḫī), and ½ shekel of gold, which was brought by (ina qātē našû) A2, for 5½ shekels of silver. Total of 1½ shekels of gold.
inner transfer: 1/5 shekel […] were lost during the smelting in the kiln, thus becoming 1¼ plus 1/10 of a shekel of gold. This gold is at the disposal (ina pāni) of B1 and B2, the goldsmiths for their work.
A1= Nabû-šullum-šarri, chief butcher (rab ṭābiḫī); A2= Šalti-ili; B1= Bēl-ibni (/Nādin//Bābūtu), goldsmith (kutimmu), see Payne 2007: 235f.; B2= Ištar-šumu-ibni (/Nabû-šumu-ukīn//Ea-kurbanni), goldsmith (kutimmu), see Payne 2007: 240
Further Information
- last updated by
- Melanie Groß, Nov. 25, 2025, 4:20 p.m.
- Imported (Person, Date)
- Yuval Levavi, Kathleen Abraham (12/09/2023)