Basic Metadata

NaBuCCo ID
4669
Museum No.
YBC 06926
Primary Publication
YOS 24 282
CDLI P-Identifier
P307940
Place of issue
No place
Regional setting
Uruk region
Archive
Eanna temple
Period
None
Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
XXX. yy-mm-dd

Digeanna

Van Driel Files
10 a
10 l
10 n
Text Form
List (various verbs, or also no verb)
Legal Purpose
Allocation (ina pāni)
Transaction Type
transactional (outgoing)
Domain (Eanna)
Animal husbandry
Format of the tablet
portrait

Content

Paraphrase

List of sheep and other animals, wool and cloth:

Young male sheep (parru): … of Ibnāya/Nabû-aḫḫē-šullim; 14 of Basia/Uzīb-Baytil; 20 of Mušēzib-Bēl/Mušallim-Marduk; 5 of Nanāya-aḫu-iddin/Nergal-ina-tēšî-ēṭir; 5 of Gadû/Nabû-ušallim; 8 of Aḫu-ilia/Abu-ilāhi; total of 103, 79 of which (ina libbi) (are for/with) the offering shepherd (rē'û satukki) (and) 24 are for the fattening shed (urû). 0;0.2.3 ghee (ḫimētu) (of) Šulāya/Šamaš-zēru-ibni; 6 geese (kurkû) (of) , the bird-catcher (usandû); 9 shekels of red-purple wool (tukrišû), blue wool (takiltu) and red wool (nabāsu), ḫûratu-dye, 1 muṣiptu-cloth, property (qātu) of the perfumers’ workshop (bīt ḫilsi), (of) Innin-šumu-uṣur/Ṭāb-Uruk; 4 ducks (paspasu), the erbu-income of Bēl-aḫḫē-erība; 75 ewes (laḫru); 12 male lambs (kalūmu), 31 female lambs (parratu); 1 billy-goat (urīṣu); 4 goats (enzu); 1 kid (lalû); total of 124 sheep and goats (ṣēnu) at the disposal (ina pāni) of Ibni-lštar. 1 cow (lītu); 1 3-year-old cow; 1 2-year-old cow; total of 3, the erbu-income at the disposal of Gimillu/Arad-lnnin. 13 young male sheep for the fattening shed; 1 young goat (lillidu).

Notes:

l.1: It is not possible to restore the missing figure in this line. According to the sum of 103 sheep it would be 51, which exaggerates all other figures, maybe it has to be taken from the sum of 79 sheep, it would be 27 sheep in this case.

l.1 (Ibnāya): The same individual as in YOS 6, 142; GC 2, 102; BM 113485; BM 114449.

l.3 (Mušēzib-Bēl): The same individual as in Nbk 124.

l.4 (Nanāya-aḫu-iddin): The same individual as in YBC 3830; PTS 2344; YOS 7, 132.

l.6 (Aḫu-ilia): The same individual as in YOS 6, 209.

l.9 (Šulāya): The same individual as in BIN 1, 174; BM 113385; SBTU 5, 299.

l.13 (Innin-šumu-uṣur): The same individual as in YOS 24, 246:2; 294:6'; 308:4'; YOS 17, 74; YOS 19, 74.

l.19 (Gimillu): The same individual as in GC 1, 323; BM 113273, Iraq 59, 25; TCL 13, 164.


Further Information

created by
Hannes Neitzke, May 26, 2025, 12:08 p.m.
last updated by
Hannes Neitzke, March 13, 2026, 6:55 a.m.