Basic Metadata

NaBuCCo ID
4368
Museum No.
YBC 09031
Primary Publication
YOS 24 004
CDLI P-Identifier
P309763
Place of issue
No place
Regional setting
Uruk region
Archive
Eanna temple
Period
Neo-Babylonian
Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
AM. 2-mm-8
Inferred date
560-559

Digeanna

Van Driel Files
7 a
Text Form
Note (...)
Legal Purpose
Allocation (ina pāni)
Transaction Type
transactional (outgoing)
Domain (Eanna)
Storehouse management and allocation of miscellaneous goods
Format of the tablet
landscape

Content

Paraphrase

[ca. 6 ½] shekels of gold (ḫurāṣu) for … gold lion (ornaments) (nēšu) of the lubār mēṭi-headdress of Bēltu-ša-Rēš; 1 19/20 shekels of gold from the repair (batqu) box (šaddu); in total 8 11/24 shekels of gold for repairs are at the disposal (ina pāni) of Ištar-šumu-ibni and Bēl-ibni, the goldsmiths (kutīmu). 

Notes:

l.3: For the lubār mēṭi-headdress cf. YOS 24, 37 and Quillien 2022, 525.

l.1: The amount of gold may have slightly exceeded 6½ shekels; based on the other amount given in the text, it may have amounted to 6 61/120 shekels.

l.8 (Ištar-šumu-ibni and Bēl-ibni): The same goldsmiths as in YOS 24, 1:6; 3:4–5; 9;1–2; 36:3–4; 53:5; YOS 6, 3 and Sack, CD, 6; cf. YOS 24, 37. Ištar-šumu-ibni is attested alone in YOS 24, 52:3.


Further Information

created by
Hannes Neitzke, May 21, 2025, 6:49 a.m.
last updated by
Hannes Neitzke, March 10, 2026, 6:33 a.m.