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.