Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 3960
- Museum No.
- WHM 1642
- Primary Publication
- Sack 1994 (Documents) 45
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P421493
- Place of issue
- No place
- Regional setting
- Uruk city
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Early Achaemenid
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Cam. 06-IX-11
- Date BCE
- 14/12/524
Digeanna
- Van Driel Files
- 9 c
- Text Form
- List (various verbs, or also no verb)
- Legal Purpose
- Payment (apil, eṭir)
- Transaction Type
- transactional (incoming)
- Domain (Eanna)
- Agriculture
- Format of the tablet
- landscape
Content
- Paraphrase
Dates which Nādinu/Innin-zēru-ēreš (N) delivered (nadānu) after the settlement of his accounts (nikkassu epēšu), day 11 of m.IX of year 6 of Cambyses:
100 kor in rations of the oblates (širku) of Bēl-šūzibanni
20 kor in allotments (maššartu) of Na[…]
30 kor in rations (kurummatu) of the oblates of Sîn-šarru-uṣur
5 kor of the bronzesmith Innin-zēru-ibni
[x] kor of the bronzesmith Tattannu
5 kor of the bleacher (pūṣāyu) Dannu-aḫḫēšu-ibni
17;1.2 kor of the royal chariot drivers (mukīl appāti) of Iddināya
17;2.3 kor, of the expenses of 50 kor dates for allotments and rations […], he gave in 1 kor […].
Total of 190;3.5 kor dates […] paid (eṭēru) by N.- Legacy Paraphrase
List of dates delivered by a single individual. Dated.
The tablet lists the dates that A, a known ploughman, delivered (nadānu) (to the Eanna temple) following (arki) the settling of (his) account (epēš nikkassi) on the 11th of Kislīm (IX) 6 Camb:
100 kor for (ina) the salaries (kurrummatu) of the temple-serfs (širku) (of) B1; 20 kor for the prebendary payments (maššartu) of B2; 30 kor for the salaries of the temple-serfs (of) B3; 5 kor (for) B4, the bronze smith (napaḫ siparri); x kor (for) B5, the bronze smith; 5 kor (for) B6, the launderer (pūṣāya); 17;1.2 kor (for) B7, the cattle fidder (mušākil alpi) of the royal oxen; 17;2.3 kor (for) the transportation costs (gimru) of 50 kur of dates which were given (nadānu) for salaries and prebendary payments, at the rate of (ina) x per 1 kor.
Total 190;3.5* kor of dates … were paid (eṭēru).
* Note that the tally seems to be too low.
A= Nādin/Innin-zēru-ēreš, a known ploughman (following Janković 2013, 111, rather than Nādin and Nanāya-zēru-ēreš as read by Sack); B1= Bēl-šuzibanni; B2= […]; B3= Sîn-šarru-uṣur; B4= Innin-zēru-ibni, bronze smith (napaḫ siparri) , see Payne 2007, 309; B5= Tattannu, bronze smith (napaḫ siparri) , see Payne 2007, 328; B6= Dannu-aḫḫēšu-ibni, launderer (pūṣāya), see Payne 2007, 163; B7= Nadnāya, cattle fidder (mušākil alpi)
Further Information
- last updated by
- Melanie Groß, Dec. 9, 2025, 12:55 p.m.
- Imported (Person, Date)
- Yuval Levavi, Kathleen Abraham (12/09/2023)