Basic Metadata

NaBuCCo ID
4302
Museum No.
YBC 04027
Primary Publication
YOS 17 325
CDLI P-Identifier
P305339
Place of issue
No place
Regional setting
Uruk region
Places mentioned on Tablet
Angillu
Bīt-Bēltu
Huṣṣēti-ša-Hašdija
Kār-Nanāya
Til-agurrēti
Archive
Eanna temple
Period
Neo-Babylonian
Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
Nbk. 8-I-21
Date BCE
03/05/597

Digeanna

Van Driel Files
9 j
Text Form
List (various verbs, or also no verb)
Legal Purpose
Administrative receipt ((ina qātē) maḫir; eṭir; also 'no verb')
Transaction Type
transactional (janus)
Domain (Eanna)
Personnel management and labor allocation
Format of the tablet
landscape

Content

Paraphrase

List of harvested barley for the imittu-impost, redistributed as food allocations (kurummatu) for groups of workers, for a period of 8 months during Nbk 8 (m.IV-m.XI).

A total of 210;0 of barley, impost (imittu) of Nabû-zēru-iddin from (tp)Ḫarru-ša-Bēl-līšir, constisting of

  • 80;0 of Nabû-zēru-iddin/Lâbâši owed to the Eanna.
  • 100;0 from the river for the ducks((?) written pa-as-pa-sa-nu), second installment (šanû bābu)
  • 10;0 in front of (tp)Ḫuṣṣētu-ša-Ḫašdia, third installment (šalšu bābu); 
  • 5;0 of barley with 15;0 of emmer (kunāšu) in front of (tp)Kar-Nanāya, fourth installment (rebû bābu).

150;0 of barley was payed (eṭēru) as food allocations to 30 workers for eight months (Nbk 8, m. IV–XI): 20 builders (arad ekalli) under the responsibility (ša qāti) of Arad-Ištar, Nabû-šumu-iddin, Nabû-ušebši, and Šamaš-uballiṭ, and 10 workers (ṣābu) under the responsibility of Nabû-aḫu-iddin, the bronzesmith (nappāḫ siparri). The remainder of this barley (rēḫtu) was reserved for the seeds and the food allocations at his disposal. It is not (?) (ša la) the barley, impost (imittu) of the irrigation district (tamirtu) (tp)Angillu, which was entrusted (paqdata) to Iqīša.

30;0 of barley, consisting of 23;0 of the šibšu-tax of Bān-Ištar/Nabû-ēreš from (tp)Til-agurrēti and 7;0 from the sharecropper (errēšu) Nabû-aḫḫē-šullim, was payed (eṭēru) to six workers under the responsibility (ina pāni) of Nergal-iddin, as food allocations for eight months (Nbk 8, m. IV–XI).

280;0 of barley, impost (imittu) of Iqišāya of (tp)Kar-Nanāya and the irrigation district (tp)Bīt-Bēltu. Of this, 225;2 of barley, was payed as food allocations for 8 months (Nbk 8, m.IV-XI) to 10 workers of Šā-Nanāya-tašmit, 13 workers of Rēmūtu, 13 workers of Ina-ṣilli-Nanāya and 8 (workers) of Nabû-zēru-iddin, the blacksmith (nappāḫ parzilli).

150;0 barley, impost (imittu) of Apkallu. Of this, 86;2 was payed as food allocations for eight months (Nbk 8, m.IV-m.XI) to 8 workers of Iddin-aḫu, the carpenter (naggāru), and 10 of Nanāya-ēreš.


Further Information

created by
Hannes Neitzke, May 19, 2025, 11:08 a.m.
last updated by
Marie Young, Aug. 6, 2026, 1:46 p.m.