Basic Metadata

NaBuCCo ID
4589
Museum No.
BM 114569
Primary Publication
WZKM 94 1
Place of issue
Uruk city
Regional setting
Uruk city
Archive
Eanna temple
Period
Early Achaemenid
Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
Cyr. 04-IX-08
Date BCE
12/12/535

Digeanna

Van Driel Files
2 a
Text Form
Protocol (...)
Legal Purpose
Statement (qabû)
Transaction Type
not applicable
Domain (Eanna)
Higher-order management and policies
Format of the tablet
landscape

Content

Paraphrase

4 wives of shepherds of the regular offering (rē’i ginê) of sheep and goats of the Lady of Uruk ((f)Nūptāya, wife of Šamaš-aḫu-iddin, (f)Gubbatu/Hazā-il, (f)Kuzbatu/Itti-Eanna-būdia, and (f)Enammaḫ-ramât, wife of Itti-Eanna-būdia), who live in the shelter (bīt tabīni), told Nidinti-Bēl/Nabû-mukīn-zēri//Dābibī, High Priest (šatammu) of Eanna, Nabû-aḫu-iddin, Royal Overseer (ša rēš šarri bēl piqitti) of Eanna, and the scribes of Eanna that (f)Aḫāssunu, the mother of Gimillu(/Innin-šumu-ibni), the wife of Innin-šumu-ibni brought (abāku) one shorn two-year-old ram marked with the star symbol and one unblemished (tamīmu) kalūmu-lamb and entrusted (paqādu) the animals with them in the shelter in Cyr. 04 m.VII.

6 witnesses.

Scribe: Ardia/Eanna-šumu-ibni


Further Information

created by
Julia Giessler, May 26, 2025, 9:05 a.m.
last updated by
Julia Giessler, Aug. 1, 2025, 1:49 p.m.
Mentioned in the following publication(s)
WZKM 94 (2004), 109-132.