Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 4351
- Museum No.
- VAT 08470
- Primary Publication
- AnOr 8 42
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P550517
- Place of issue
- Namri-saparrāta
- Regional setting
- Uruk region
- Places mentioned on Tablet
- Bīrāti
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Early Achaemenid
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Cyr. 04-VII-18
- Date BCE
- 24/10/535
Digeanna
- Van Driel Files
- 3 e
- Text Form
- Order (i.a., adi ... VERB)
- Legal Purpose
- Summons (adi ... abāku, alāku)
- Transaction Type
- transactional (janus)
- Domain (Eanna)
- Higher-order management and policies
- Format of the tablet
- landscape
Content
- Paraphrase
Ištar-zēru-ibni/Ša-Nabû-šū in (tp)Bīrāti has received (maḫāru) 40;0 barley for the seeds for his plows from Nabû-mudammiq/Nabû-ēṭir//Gimil-Nanāya (NM), restoration of the patronym based on AnOr 8 39: 18), rent farmer (ša muḫḫi sūti) of the Lady of Uruk.
In m.VIII he will measure out (mašāḫu) 40;0.3(+x?) (barley) and present it (kullumu) to the messenger (mār šipri) of Nidinti-Bēl, High Priest (šatammu) of Eanna, Nabû-aḫu-iddin, Royal Overseer (ša rēš šarri bēl piqitti) of Eanna, and NM.
3 witnesses.
Scribe: Nabû-zēru-ukīn/Nabû-kāṣir//Arrabtu.
The spelling in l. 6 (40 GUR 3 [+x?] BÁN šul-ma(or: -ba)) is confirmed by collation of the tablet (by Julia Giessler).
Further Information
- created by
- Julia Giessler, May 20, 2025, 8:39 a.m.
- last updated by
- Julia Giessler, Dec. 8, 2025, 4:01 p.m.
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- Cocquerillat 1968