Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 4884
- Museum No.
- NBC 04529
- Primary Publication
- YOS 19 074
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P297548
- Place of issue
- Uruk city
- Regional setting
- Uruk region
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Neo-Babylonian
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Nbn. 15-II-28
- Date BCE
- 16/05/541
Digeanna
- Van Driel Files
- 7 f
- Text Form
- Receipt (maḫāru, eṭēru)
- Legal Purpose
- Administrative receipt ((ina qātē) maḫir; eṭir; also 'no verb')
- Transaction Type
- transactional (incoming)
- Domain (Eanna)
- Craft production (non-cult related)
- Format of the tablet
- landscape
Content
- Paraphrase
Innin-šumu-uṣur/Ṭāb-Uruk receives (maḫāru) 6 minas of takiltu wool (takiltu) from the cauldron (pû ruqqu) from (ina qāt) Nūrêa/Gimillu//Išparu. He vouches (pūt našû) for booking the wool in the temple records (šuzzuzu ina muḫḫi leˀi).
2 witnesses.
Scribe: Sîn-erība/Šamaš-zēru-līšir//Kurī
- Legacy Paraphrase
Receipt for purple wool.
A received (mahāru, Stat.) 6 minas of ‘fresh’ (ša pî ruqqi) purple wool from B.
A bears the responsibility (pūtu našû) for recording (ušuzzu) the wool on the writing board of the Lady-of-Uruk.
Witnesses (*Payne does not include their names. Their number needs to be checked in YOS 19) and a scribe.
A= Innin-šumu-uṣur (/Ṭāb-Uruk), a known weaver (išpar birmi) and a temple-serf, see Payne 2007 (PhD diss.), 172f.; B= Nūrēa/Gimillu//Išparu.
Further Information
- Type and Content
- Receipts
- created by
- Matthias Adelhofer, June 23, 2025, 10 a.m.
- last updated by
- Matthias Adelhofer, July 14, 2025, 12:15 p.m.
- Imported (Person, Date)
- Yuval Levavi, Kathleen Abraham (10/09/2023)