Basic Metadata

NaBuCCo ID
3954
Museum No.
WHM 1719
Primary Publication
Sack 1994 (Documents) 39
CDLI P-Identifier
P421570
Place of issue
No place
Regional setting
Uruk city
Archive
Eanna temple
Period
Neo-Babylonian
Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
Nbk. 24-VII-02
Date BCE
07/10/581

Digeanna

Van Driel Files
10 n
Text Form
Note (...)
Legal Purpose
Allocation (ina pāni)
Transaction Type
transactional (janus)
Domain (Eanna)
Animal husbandry
Format of the tablet
landscape

Content

Paraphrase

30 offering (ginû) sheep of Šamaš-bān-aḫi/Bēl-aḫu-iddin, 4 of Nanāya-iddin, [x] of Nabû-šarru-uṣur, [x] of Nabû-šumu-līšir/Balāssu. (Total of) offering [sheep] which the herdsmen (nāqidu) received (maḫāru). These are at the disposal of (ina pāni) the offering shepherd (rē’ī ginê) Tukulti-Marduk/Kudurru.

Legacy Paraphrase

Multiple transactions of different types: sheep for sacrifice are delivered to the temple and entrusted to the offering shepherd. Dated.

The Eanna temple received (maḫāru, Stat.) the following sheep for the regular offering (sattukku) of four herdsmen (nāqidu): incoming: 30 sacrificial sheep (immer sattukku/ginû) of A1, 4 of A2, x of A3, x of A4.

inner transfer: The animals are now under the responsibility of B, the offering shepherd (rēˀi sattukku/ginû).

 

A1= Šamaš-bān-aḫi/Bēl-aḫu-iddin; A2= Nanāya-iddin; A3= Nabû-šarru-uṣur; A4= Nabû-šumu-līšir/Balāssu; B= Tukulti-Marduk, offering shepherd (rēˀi sattukku/ginû)


Further Information

last updated by
Melanie Groß, Dec. 4, 2025, 3:08 p.m.
Imported (Person, Date)
Yuval Levavi, Kathleen Abraham (12/09/2023)