Basic Metadata

NaBuCCo ID
4876
Museum No.
GCBC 00517
Primary Publication
GCCI 1 388
CDLI P-Identifier
P294416
Place of issue
No place
Regional setting
Uruk region
Archive
Eanna temple
Period
Neo-Babylonian
Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
Nbn. 03-mm-dd
Inferred date
01.04.553-19.04.552 BCE; undated, Nbn.3 inferred from the text

Digeanna

Van Driel Files
7 f
Text Form
Note (...)
Legal Purpose
Administrative receipt ((ina qātē) maḫir; eṭir; also 'no verb')
Transaction Type
transactional (outgoing)
Domain (Eanna)
Cult and pertinent craft production
Format of the tablet
landscape

Content

Paraphrase

Various quantities of linen and yarn issued (? no verbs used) for clothing ceremonies (túg.níg.lám = lubuštu).

For the lubuštu-ceremony of Nbn.03.V.01: 2 minas of ṭumānu-linen to the weaver (išparu), 15 shekels to the atelier (bīt dulli), ⅓ shekel to the warehouse (bīt karê).

For 2 lubuštu-ceremonies in m.VI (Nbn.03.VI.04 and Nbn.03.VI.16): 3 minas ⅓ shekel ṭumānu-linen to the weaver (išparu), ½ mina to the atelier (bīt dulli), ⅚ mina to the warehouse (bīt karê).

For the lubuštu-ceremony of Nbn.03.VIII.08: 2 minas of ṭumānu-linen to the weaver, ⅓ shekel to the atelier (bīt dulli), ⅓ shekel to the warehouse (bīt karê).

⅚ mina of thick yarn (ṭīmu kabbaru) belonging to a taḫapšu-stole of the goddesses Uṣur-amāssu and Urkayītu, 1 ½ minas for a wooden hand … (giš.ú-zu-ba-ni-ti šu.II) and for ropes (?, ṭurru) for a gate.


Further Information

created by
Dylan Schimek, June 18, 2025, 4:14 p.m.
last updated by
Dylan Schimek, Oct. 5, 2026, 3:01 p.m.
Mentioned in the following publication(s)
Beaulieu 2003
Kleber 2005
Kleber 2017
Payne 2007 (unpubl. PhD diss.)
Quillien 2022
Zawadzki 2006