Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 3970
- Museum No.
- WHM 1709
- Primary Publication
- Sack 1994 (Documents) 55
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P421560
- Place of issue
- No place
- Regional setting
- Uruk city
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Neo-Babylonian
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Nbn. 05-I-12
- Date BCE
- 21/04/551
Digeanna
- Van Driel Files
- 4 b
- Text Form
- Note (...)
- Legal Purpose
- Debt Repayment (maḫir, eṭir)
- Transaction Type
- transactional (incoming)
- Domain (Eanna)
- Storehouse management and allocation of silver
- Format of the tablet
- landscape
Content
- Paraphrase
Iddin-Nabû/Šākin-šumi has delivered (mahāru) 4 shekels of silver (and) 1;1.1.3 barley from (ina) the allotment period (maššartu) of m.I, m.II and m.III of Ardia/Šākin-šumi, 5 shekels silver in total as compensatory payment (šullundu) for a golden šappu-bowl. In the following ½ shekel royal income (uppiātu) of Ištar-šumu-ēreš/Arad-Gula is mentioned (it is unclear whether Arad-Gula is indeed the father of Ištar-šumu-ēreš).
- Legacy Paraphrase
Single transaction with multiple entries: delivery of silver and barley to the temple. Dated.
The Eanna temple received (maḫāru, Stat.) from A 4 shekels of silver as (ina) compensatory payment (šullundu) for a golden šappu-vat and 0;1.1.1.3 kor of barley for (ina) the prebendary payments (maššartu) of Nisan (I), Ayyār (II), and Simān (III) of B.
An additional sum (of silver?) is mentioned: ½ shekel upiyātu-revenue(?) of(?) (no Prep.) C. Its connection to the silver above as well as the nature of the transaction is unclear.
A= Iddin-Nabû/Šākin-šumi, brother of B(?); B= Ardia/Šākin-šumi, brother of A(?); C= Ištar-šumu-ēreš/Arad-Gula
Further Information
- last updated by
- Michael Jursa, July 15, 2026, 11:03 a.m.
- Imported (Person, Date)
- Yuval Levavi, Kathleen Abraham (12/09/2023)