Basic Metadata

NaBuCCo ID
3925
Museum No.
WHM 1536
Primary Publication
Sack 1994 (Documents) 10
CDLI P-Identifier
P421388
Place of issue
No place
Regional setting
Uruk city
Archive
Eanna temple
Period
Neo-Babylonian
Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
XXX. 09-III-02

Digeanna

Van Driel Files
7 c
Text Form
Note (...)
Legal Purpose
Debt Repayment (maḫir, eṭir)
Transaction Type
transactional (incoming)
Domain (Eanna)
Craft production (non-cult related)
Format of the tablet
landscape

Content

Paraphrase

½ mina 8 shekels iron, 2 iron sickles (niggallu) (and) 3 iron stars (kakkabtu) received (maḫir) from Nabû-zēru-iddin . The date formula lacks the king's name. 

Legacy Paraphrase

Single transaction: a delivery of iron items to the temple. Dated.

The Eanna temple receives (maḫāru, Stat.) 8 shekels of iron, 2 iron sickles, and 3 iron-stars from A.

 

A= Nabû-zēru-iddin (/Rāš-ili), a known ironsmith and a temple-serf, see Payne 2007, 317ff.


Further Information

last updated by
Melanie Groß, Nov. 25, 2025, 4:22 p.m.
Imported (Person, Date)
Yuval Levavi, Kathleen Abraham (12/09/2023)