Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 3932
- Museum No.
- WHM 1571
- Primary Publication
- Sack 1994 (Documents) 17
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P421423
- Place of issue
- No place
- Regional setting
- Uruk city
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Neo-Babylonian
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Nbk. 16-VII-[x]
- Date BCE
- 589
Digeanna
- Text Form
- Note (...)
- Legal Purpose
- Withdrawal (našû)
- Transaction Type
- transactional (outgoing)
- Domain (Eanna)
- Storehouse management and allocation of silver
- Format of the tablet
- landscape
Content
- Paraphrase
1 shekel silver for […] bronze which were sent (šapāru) and given (nadānu) to Babylon by Ṭāb-Uruk. ½ shekel (silver) withdrawn (našû) for the rite (parṣu) of Nanāya. ½ shekel (silver) withdrawn for the bird catcher (usandû) Nanāya-[…] who (brought) birds to Babylon.
- Legacy Paraphrase
Multiple transactions of different type: amounts of outgoing silver paid for several goods. Dated.
The tablet lists three amounts of silver paid by the temple for different purposes:
outgoing silver: 1 shekel of silver delivered (nadānu, wr. na-din) for a bronze-[…] of A1 that was sent to Babylon; ½ shekel of silver issued (našû) for the parṣu-ritual of Nanāya; ½ shekel of silver issued to A2, the fowler, to Babylon.
A1= Ṭāb-Uruk; A2= Nanāya-[…], fowler
Further Information
- last updated by
- Melanie Groß, Dec. 1, 2025, 2:40 p.m.
- Imported (Person, Date)
- Yuval Levavi, Kathleen Abraham (12/09/2023)