Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 4743
- Museum No.
- VAT 04607.0
- Primary Publication
- AnOr 9 20
- Place of issue
- No place
- Regional setting
- Uruk city
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Early Achaemenid
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Cam. 06+-VI-00
- Inferred date
- 524-522
Digeanna
- Van Driel Files
- 6 d
- Text Form
- List (various verbs, or also no verb)
- Legal Purpose
- Issue (nadin)
- Transaction Type
- transactional (outgoing)
- Domain (Eanna)
- Storehouse management and allocation of staples
- Formatting
- True
- Formatting remarks
- paragraph lines
- Format of the tablet
- portrait
Content
- Paraphrase
List of barley for regular (ginû) and occasssional offerings (guqqû) given (nadānu) to brewers as sacrificial commodities and priestly remuneration (maššartu) for Cam.06 m.IV–m.VI. The list is arranged in sections pertaining to royal and individual prebendary service shifts before different deities of Eanna.
1. section: Lady of Uruk in m.IV, given to Šellebu, Šamaš-[...], Sîn-ēreš, Arad-Marduk, Šamaš-mukīn-apli.
2. section: Lady of Uruk in m.V, given to Nādinu, Bazuzu (entrusted to (piqid ina pāni) Nādinu), [...]/Arad-Marduk, Sîn-ibni (entrusted to) Arad-Marduk, Sîn-ibni?, Arad-Marduk, Sîn-ēreš, Innin-šumu-uṣur, Innin-zēru-ušebši.
3. section: Lady of Uruk in m.VI, given to Bēl?-zēru?-ušebši (Freydank: Bēl-aḫu-ušebši), Šamaš-mukīn-apli, Nādinu, Arad-Marduk, Nidintu, Innin-šumu-uṣur, Sîn-ēreš, Nabû-nādin-aḫi, Bazuzu (entrusted to Nādinu), Innin-aplu-uṣur, Innin-zēru-ibni.
4. section: Nanāya in m.IV, given to Nabû-ēṭir-napšāti, Nādinu, Šamaš-mukīn-apli, Sūqāya, Ibni-Ištar Sîn-ēreš, Balāṭu, Šamaš-mukīn-apli, Mūrānu (entrusted to) Šamaš-zēru-iddin, Ina-tēšî-ēṭir and Marduk-zēru-ibni.
5. section: Nanāya in m.V, given to Nergal-šumu-ibni, Nādinu (including service shifts of Arad-Marduk), Innin-šumu-uṣur (including service shifts of [...]), [...]-aḫḫē-iddin (entrusted to Nabû-nādin-aḫi), Nanāya-iddin/Innin-aḫḫē-iddin, Nādinu and Šamaš-mukīn-apli, [...]-iddin, Šulāya.
6. section: Nanāya in m.VI given to Sūqāya and his brothers, Šamaš-mukīn-apli, Balāṭu, Sîn-ibni (entrusted to Arad-Marduk and Sîn-ēreš), Mūrānu (entrusted to Šamaš-zēru-iddin), Šellebu, Sîn-ēreš, Nādinu, Šamaš-zēru-iddin.
7. section: Bēltu-ša-Rēš in m.IV, given to Naʼid-Marduk and Nabû-balāssu-iqbi, Lâbâši/Nergal-šumu-iddin, Nādinu, [...], Bazuzu (entrusted to Nādinu), Ibni-Ištar, Nabû-šumu-imbi and his brothers, Sūqāya and his brothers, Šamaš-mukīn-apli, Balāssu.
8. section: Bēltu-ša-Rēš in m.V, given to Nergal-šumu-ibni, Nādinu (including service shifts of Arad-Marduk), Ardia, [...], Bēl-aḫḫē-iddin, Nabû-šumu-imbi and his brothers, Lâbâši/Nergal-šumu-iddin, Šamaš-mukīn-apli, Bēlšunu/Nergal-iddin, Arad-Marduk, Nanāya-[...], Balāssu, Zēr-Bābili.
9. section: Bēltu-ša-Rēš in m.VI, given to Šamaš-mukīn-apli, Bēl-ibni, Nādinu, Lâbâši, Marduka and Nanāya-iddin (entrusted to [...]), [...]-iqīša, Nabû-šumu-imbi and his brothers.
10. section: Uṣur-amāssu in m.IV, given to Marduk-aplu-uṣur and mu[...] (lacuna) Nādinu?, Lâbâši, Bēlšunu/Nergal-šumu-iddin, Ardia, Sîn-[...]
11. section: Lady of Uruk, Nanāya and Bēltu-ša-Rēš [...], barley and sometimes also vats (dannu) given to Šamaš-mukīn-apli, the temple of Marduk, Innin-aḫḫē-iddin, Sîn-ēreš, [...] m.VI, Nabû-ušēzib, Nabû-balāssu?-iqbi?, [...]-ēreš, [...], Bazuzu (entrusted to Nādinu), Lâbâši, Nādinu, Balāṭu, Šamaš-mukīn-apli, Šellebu, Sîn-ibni (entrusted to Arad-Marduk and Sîn-ēreš), Sîn-ibni (entrusted to Šamaš-mukīn-apli), Ardia, Arad-Marduk, Sîn-ēreš, [...]-Sîn, Sūqāya (barley and premium beer for m.IV entrusted to [...]), the temple of Ninurta-of-the-Courtyard (bīt kisalli), the Zaqiptu standard, [...] and the temple of Ea, [....]-?Ninurta, Nabû-nādin-aḫi [...] temple of Anu, temple of Enlil, [...] of m.IV for Dumuzi [...], Balāṭu, Šamaš-mukīn-apli [...], Mūrānu (entrusted to Šamaš-zēru-iddin), [...] the temple of Nusku, Zumbu and his brothers, the temple of Ninurta, Lūṣi-ana-nūr-Šamaš [...] of m.V, the temple of Iššar (or: Aššur), Šamaš-mukīn-apli, premium beer for [...]
12. section: summing up and listing names including Nabû-šumu-imbi, Zumbu and his brothers, Lūṣi-ana-nūr-Šamaš, Nādinu and Gimillu, Bēl-iqīša.
For restorations see Freydank 1971.
The date is mentioned in the opening section.
The museum number is VAT 046070+ VAT 14610.
Further Information
- created by
- Julia Giessler, May 30, 2025, 8:26 a.m.
- last updated by
- Małgorzata Sandowicz, Feb. 20, 2026, 11:20 a.m.
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- Freydank 1971