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)