Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 4028
- Museum No.
- NYPL 398
- Primary Publication
- KASKAL 20, 281-289
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P342769
- Regional setting
- Uruk region
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- None
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Npl. yy-mm-dd
- Inferred date
- Npl 06
Digeanna
- Van Driel Files
- 3 f
- Text Form
- List (various verbs, or also no verb)
- Legal Purpose
- Initiation (gullubu)
- Transaction Type
- not applicable
- Formatting
- True
- Formatting remarks
- 2x2 columns
- Format of the tablet
- portrait
Content
- Paraphrase
Damaged list of priests (temple-enterers, brewers, bakers, prebendary gardeners and other clergy, kiništu) consecrated (gullubu) by king Nabopolassar for (the service at) the table of Ištar of Uruk and Nanāya.
Names include: (col. 1) Iddin-Marduk/Lâbâši-Marduk, Innin-zēru-šubši/Kudurru, Ṭābia/Kudurru, Šulāya/Rēmūt, Nādin/Aḫḫēšu, Nabû-zēru-iqīša/Gudādu, Bēl-ibni/Kūnāya, Bēl-aḫḫē-iddin/Aḫḫēšu, Nergal-ušallim/Kudurru, Rēmūt/Bēl-aḫu-iddin: altogether ten temple-enterers of the Lady of Uruk, Nanāya and Uṣur-amāssu; (col. 2): brewers and bakers: Arad-Nabû/Nanāya-ēreš, Bēl-uballiṭ/Aḫḫēšu, Bēl-ibni/Nabû-šar-aḫḫēšu, Iqīšāya/?-aḫi, Šumu-ukīn/Bēl-šumu-iškun, Taqīš-Gula/Bēl-nāṣir, Šamaš-šumu-ukīn/Arad-Nanāya, Nabû-šumu-iddin/Bēl-uballiṭ (gap) Arad-Innin/Kūnāya, Gimillu, his brother, Iqīšāya, his brother, […/]Ibnāya, […/]Aḫḫēšāya, […/]Kudurru; (col 3) : bakers, rab-banê: Šumu-[…], Nādin/[…], Nabû-šumu-ēreš/[…], Isinnāya/Nabû-šumu-šubši, Nabû-šumu-ibni, his brother (Nabû-šumu-ibni/Nabû-šumu-šubši), Nanāya-iddin/Nabû-aḫu-ēreš, Nabû-nāṣir/Nabû-bēlu-uṣur, Lisinu/Lāqīpu, Arad-Innin/Nabû-zēru-ēreš; Bēl-ušallim/Ezu-pašir, Ṣillāya/[…], (blank)/Rēmūt (some lines uninscribed), Nabû-šumu-ibni/Iqīšāya, Bēl-ušallim/Ṣillāya, Kudurru/Nabû-taqbi-līšir, Balāssu/[…], Arad-Innin, his brother, Tabnēa, his brother, Nabû-gāmil/Šumu-ukīn, Zēria, his brother, Tarībi, his brother, Šulāya/Anu-aḫu-iddin, Ana-bītia/Ṣillāya; (col. 4): […]/Nabû-ušallim, […]/Ardia, […]bibi/Nabû-ēṭer, […], the fisherman, […]-aḫḫē/Ea-ēreš; […]-a, the priest of Ninurta, [U]bār, the barber, Ardia, the barber (fifteen lines uninscribed)
This refers to a re-organization of Eanna's clergy after the recapture of the city by Nabopolassar in his sixth year (inferred date).
Further Information
- created by
- Michael Jursa, March 27, 2025, 10:46 p.m.
- last updated by
- Matthias Adelhofer, March 31, 2025, 12:53 p.m.
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- KASKAL 20, 281-289