Basic Metadata

NaBuCCo ID
4683
Museum No.
YBC 09027
Primary Publication
YOS 24 296
CDLI P-Identifier
P309759
Place of issue
No place
Regional setting
Uruk region
Archive
Eanna temple
Period
Neo-Babylonian
Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
Nbn. yy-V-19

Digeanna

Van Driel Files
5 a
Text Form
List (various verbs, or also no verb)
Legal Purpose
Personnel (ṣābū ša … vel sim.)
Transaction Type
not applicable
Domain (Eanna)
Personnel management and labor allocation
Format of the tablet
portrait

Content

Paraphrase

List of workers in the temple dated to the 29th or 19th day of m.V. containing different kinds of workers:

5 woodwork carpenters (nagār qutānu): Gimillu/Nabû-zēru-iqīša; Anu-šumu-ibni/Madānu-ēreš; Itti-enši-Nabû/Šulāya; Šamaš-aḫu-iddin/Nabû-aḫḫē-šullim; Šamaš-šumu-iddin/Šamaš-zēru-iqīša; Nidintu/Nabû-mušētiq-uddi, a proxy (našpartu).

Weavers of colored cloth (išparu birmu): Innin-šumu-uṣur/Ṭāb-Uruk; Ina-tēšî-ēṭir/Rēmūtu; Anu-šarru-uṣur/Rēmūtu; Arad-Bēl/Silim-Bēl; Šamaš-ēṭir/Silim-Bēl; Kalbāya/Nabû-silim, a proxy; Kī-Šamaš, in (tp)Larsa; Ištar-aḫu-iddin, (standing) for (ina pāni) Kidinnu; Amīl-Nanāya, sick.

7 persons of different origins: Erēbšu/Nanāya-iddin; Šamaš-zēru-ibni/Erēbšu; Arad-lnnin/(f)Ana-bītišu, a novice oblate (zakītu); Dannu-aḫḫēšu-ibni/(f)Ana-tabanīšu, a novice oblate; Gimillu/Bēl-iqbi, in (tp)Babylon; Ubāru/Amīl-Nanāya, in (tp)Larsa; Ištar-šarru-uṣur, (man) of the governor (šakin māti) (of the Sealand), a proxy.

9 bleachers (pūṣāyu): Šamaš-šumu-ukīn/Ḫašdia; Nanāya-iddin/Šamaš-šumu-ukīn; Ibni-lštar/Šamaš-šumu-ukīn; Rēmūtu, (man) of Ninurta-šarru-uṣur; Nidintu, his brother; Nabû-dīnī-īpuš, (man) of Dūrlāya; Dannu-aḫḫēšu-ibni/Nabû-ēdu-uṣur, in (tp)Babylon; Šumu-iddin/Nabû-ēdu-uṣur, in (tp)Larsa; Ṣāṣiru, ditto.

9 bleachers unter the responsibility (ša qāti) of Šamaš-iddin/Nanāya-iddin (ŠI): ŠI; Eanna-šumu-ibni/Šulāya; Bēl-ēṭir/Arad-Nabû; Arad-lnnin/Arad-Nabû; Nanāya-iddin, in (tp)Babylon; Nabû-ēṭir-napšāti, a proxy; Ištar-rēṣûa, in (tp)Larsa; Šamaš-kāṣir/Šumu-uṣur; Šamaš-aḫu-iddin/Šumu-uṣur; Šamaš-iddin/Šellebu; Anu-šarru-uṣur/Šellebu.

5 blacksmiths (nappāḫ parzilli): Ibni-lštar/Bēl-upaḫḫir; Ēdûa, his slave (qallu); Ištar-aḫu-iddin/Nabû-ušebši; Bēl-eṭēri-Šamaš/Ištar-zēru-ibni; Arad-Nabû and Ubāru, who were sent (šapāru) for firewood (bulû).

10 leatherworkers (aškāpu): Šamaš-ibni; Šamaš-ilûa; Ištar-ukīn; Bākûa; Nabû-balāssu-iqbi; Nadnāya/Gimillu; Ibni-lštar, in (tp)Larsa; Iddia, with Kalbāya, the harbor overseer (rab karî); Arad-Gula and Dannu-aḫḫēšu-ibni, proxy/proxies.

[4] delivery men (?) (mušallimānu): Itti-Bēl-abni; Ardia/Itti-Bēl-abni; Nādinu, in (tp)Babylon; Ana-lštar-taklāku, in (tp)Larsa; Dannu-aḫḫēšu-ibni/a novice oblate.

Blacksmiths under the responsibility (ina qāti) of Ḫašdāya (Ḫ): Ḫ; Nanāya-…; Nabû-bāni, for firewood …, in (tp)Larsa.

Further mentioned: Innin-zēru-šubši; Eanna-līpu-uṣur; Ardia; Bānia; Gimillu; Uqūpu; Nanāya-aḫu-iddin/Nabû-ēṭir, in (tp)Larsa; Šumu-uṣur and Gūzānu, in (tp)Babylon; Zēria/Innin-šumu-uṣur, sick; Šamaš-zēru-ibni/Nabû-mukīn-apli (?); Šamaš-zēru-ibni/Itti-Šamaš-balāṭu; Zumbu/Itti-Šamaš-balāṭu; Dannu-aḫḫēšu-ibni, sick (marṣu); Iddināya/a novice oblate.

Notes:

l.18 (Erēbšu): The same individual is otherwise attested in the Eanna archive, cf. Payne 2007, 166–167.

l.20 (Dannu-aḫḫēšu-ibni): The same individual is otherwise attested in the Eanna archive, cf. Payne 2007, 163.

l.21 (Bēl-iqbi): The same individual is otherwise attested in the Eanna archive, cf. Payne 2007, 162.

l.30 (Dannu-aḫḫēšu-ibni): The same individual is otherwise attested in the Eanna archive, cf. Payne 2007, 164.

l.36 (Eanna-šumu-ibni): The same individual is otherwise attested in the Eanna archive, cf. Payne 2007, 165.

l.37 (Bēl-ēṭir): The same individual is otherwise attested in the Eanna archive, cf. Payne 2007, 160.

l.46 (Bēl-upaḫḫir): The same individual is otherwise attested in the Eanna archive, cf. Payne 2007, 302.

l.46 (Ēdûa): The same individual is otherwise attested in the Eanna archive, cf. Payne 2007, 303.


Further Information

created by
Hannes Neitzke, May 26, 2025, 12:17 p.m.
last updated by
Hannes Neitzke, March 25, 2026, 9:49 a.m.