Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 4744
- Museum No.
- VAT 14603+
- Primary Publication
- AnOr 9 21
- Place of issue
- No place
- Regional setting
- Uruk city
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- None
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- XXX. 01+-XII-00
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
- landscape
Content
- Paraphrase
List of a total of 1010;1.5 barley for regular (ginû) and occasssional offerings (guqqû) given (nadānu) as sacrificial commodities and priestly remuneration (maššartu) in m.X–m.XII to brewers. The obverse of the list is arranged in sections pertaining to royal and individual prebendary service shifts before different deities of Eanna.
Section 1: The Lady of Uruk in m.X, given to Nabu-mušētiq-uddi [...], Madānu-aḫḫē-iddin, Arad-Innin [...].
Section 2: The Lady of Uruk in m.XI, given to [...], Nabû-tabni-uṣur, Madānu-aḫḫē-iddin, [...] (entrusted to) Madānu-aḫḫē-iddin, Arad-Innin, Arad-[...], [...]-Marduk, Ibni-Ištar (received by Nabû-kāṣir and entrusted to Sîn-ibni), [...].
Section 3: The Lady of Uruk in m.XII, given to [...] Madānu-aḫḫē-iddin, Bānia (received by Nūrea and entrusted to Sîn-ibni), [...], Arad-[...] (received by Šamaš-udammiq), Mušallim-Marduk.
Section 4: Nanāya in m.X, given to Bēl-[...], Bēl-aḫḫē-erība (received by Nādinu/Gimillu
to Madānu-aḫḫē-iddin), Kiribtu (received by Nādinu/Gimillu entrusted to [...]), Šulāya/Ṣillāya (received by Bānia entrusted to Nādinu), Bānia. Section 5: Nanāya in m.XI, given to Nergal-šumu-ibni, Madānu-aḫḫē-iddin, [...], Nabû-balāssu-iqbi, Gimillu, Mušallim-Marduk, [...], Arad-Marduk, Sîn-ēreš, Sîn-ibni, Arad-Innin.
Section 6: Nanāya in m.XII, given to Madānu-aḫḫē-iddin, Rēmūtu, [...], Aplāya, Nergal-šumu-iddin, [...], Nādinu.
Section 6: Bēltu-ša-Rēs in m.X, given to Dayyān-Marduk, [...], Zēru-ukīn, Arad-Marduk.
Section 7: Bēltu-ša-Rēs in m.XI, given to Madānu-aḫḫē-iddin, Bānia, Innin-[...] (or Ištar-...], Arad-Marduk, [...].
Section 8: Bēltu-ša-Rēs in m.XII, given to [...] Arad-Innin, Gimillu, Sîn-ēreš, [...], Imbia, [...], Šumu-ukīn.
Section 9: Uṣur-amassu in m.X, given to Marduk-aplu-uṣur, [...]-iddin, [...], Arad-Innin, Imbia, [...]/Nūr-Sîn, [...].
Section 10: Uṣur-amassu in m.XI, given to Madānu-aḫḫē-iddin, [...].
Section 11: Uṣur-amassu in m.XII, given to [...], Arad-Innin, Arad-[...], Nabû-balāssu-iqbi, Sîn-[...].
Section 12 (reverse of the tablet) lists special issues of barley, partially given in namḫāru-vessels, adaru-vessels and vats (dannu). It is (given) for good barley wort (billatu) besides nocturnal offering rituals (bayyātu) [...] entrusted to Madānu-aḫḫē-iddin [...], for nāšu-beer to Innin-šumu-uṣur [...], for small temples (ekurrātu) for (ša) the king to Madānu-aḫḫē-iddin [...], for the temple of Ninurta to Lūṣi-ana-nūr-Šamaš, [...] Šamaš-šumu-iddin (restoration based on l. 25), for barley wort [...] to present before the Lady of Eanna [...], for beer [...] for Bēltu-ša-Rēš to Madānu-aḫḫē-iddin, for (travel) provisions (ṣidītu) of the gods [...], for eššēšu-feast days, for the ḫarû-offering for the king to Gimillu, for [...] to Madānu-aḫḫē-iddin, for [...] Bēltu-ša-Rēš [...] for the king to Arad-Marduk, for [...] to Nabû-balāssu-iqbi, [...] Ardia, for [...] to Nergal-[...], [...] for the king to Gimillu/Balāssu, for [...] the Lady of Uruk, for the king to Sîn-ēreš, for [...] of Uruk to Ištar-nādin-apli, for [...] before [... (deity)], for the king to Nādinu, for Bānia (and/entrusted to)? Nūrea, to Innin-aḫḫē-iddin, for the king to Sîn-[...], for [...] for Urkayītu in the temple of Adad on the 10th day of m.X [...], for beer for the 19th day of m.X to Nabû-balāssu-iqbi.
Closing section: summing up and listing the names Madānu-aḫḫē-iddin, Imbia, Gimillu/Balāssu, Nabû-balāssu-iqbi, Arad-Innin/Ibni-Ištar, Nūr-Sîn, Arad-Marduk/Zēria, Marduk-aplu-uṣur, Nādinu/Bēl-aḫḫē-iqīša, Innin-aḫḫē-iddin, Sîn-ibni/Šamaš-udammiq, Nabû-ēṭir, Sîn-ēreš/Nabû-šumu-līšir?, Sūqāya, Nergal-šumu-iddin/Ina-tēšî-ēṭir, Lūṣi-ana-nūr-Šamaš, Nūrēa, Šamaš-šumu-iddin and his brothers.
VAT 14603 (= AnOr 9 21), VAT 14609 (= AnOr 9, 29) and VAT 16564 were joined by Freydank 1971
Further Information
- created by
- Julia Giessler, May 30, 2025, 8:53 a.m.
- last updated by
- Julia Giessler, June 3, 2025, 8:19 a.m.