Basic Metadata

NaBuCCo ID
4814
Museum No.
GCBC 00472
Primary Publication
GCCI 1 006
CDLI P-Identifier
P294371
Regional setting
Uruk region
Archive
Eanna temple
Period
Neo-Babylonian
Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
Nbk. 2-IX-24
Date BCE
29/12/603

Digeanna

Text Form
Receipt (maḫāru, eṭēru)
Legal Purpose
Debt Repayment (maḫir, eṭir)
Transaction Type
transactional (outgoing)
Domain (Eanna)
Higher-order management and policies
Format of the tablet
landscape

Content

Paraphrase

Silver of the High Priest Nabû-nādin-šumi/Bēl-šumu-iškun//Dābibī is owed by, or stored in, the temple treasury (makkūru). The silver is the equivalent for gold; it is being paid at least in part in wool.

Quantities: 18.5 minas 6.75 shekels of silver as price of 2 minas 10.25 shekels of gold; 1 mina 10.25 of gold thereof is valued at 19.5 shekels of silver per shekel of gold, and the remaining mina at 9.5 shekels of silver per shekel of gold. 18 minas of silver are said to be “in the treasury,” 36.75 shekels were paid in wool.

In the presence of (ina ušuzzi) of Nabû-ēṭir-napšāti//Šigûa as well as 8 witnesses, no designated scribe.


Further Information

created by
Jelena Gvozdenović, June 12, 2025, 10:25 a.m.
last updated by
Dylan Schimek, Jan. 12, 2026, 11:54 a.m.