Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 4954
- Museum No.
- VAT 08432
- Primary Publication
- AnOr 9 17
- Place of issue
- No place
- Regional setting
- Uruk region
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Neo-Babylonian
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- XXX. 00-00-00
- Inferred date
- Nbk. 25+
Digeanna
- Van Driel Files
- 8 a
- Text Form
- List (various verbs, or also no verb)
- Transaction Type
- not applicable
- Domain (Eanna)
- Higher-order management and policies
- Formatting remarks
- A line after each section/verse.
- Format of the tablet
- portrait
- Private context
- True
Content
- Paraphrase
A list of houses of the Lady of Uruk, their former owners and current residents, and their yearly rent:
house of Ištar-aḫu-[…] Ištar-ālik-pāni […], for 2 shekels of silver […];
house pledged by Marduk-šākin-šumi: Nabû-[…]/Nabû-nā’id, for 10 shekels;
house of Nabû-aḫḫē-iddin next to the house of Ša[…]: Gimillu/Ardia, for 4 shekels, beginning from year 25;
house of Taqīš-Gula/Nergal-ušallim: Silim-Bēl/Nabû-aḫ[ḫē]-šullim, for 4 shekels;
1st house of Nabû-ušebši/Nergal-ušallim: Šamaš-iddin/Šamaš-uballiṭ;
2nd house of Nabû-ušebši(/Nergal-ušallim): Amīl-Nanāya;
3rd house of Nabû-ušebši(/Nergal-ušallim): Ina-ṣilli-[…];
4th house of Nabû-ušebši(/Nergal-ušallim): Ina-ṣilli-Bēl[/…]ṭu;
house of Bēl-aḫḫē-erība/Balāssu: Nabû-qāssu-ṣabat;
3rd house of Šumu-ukīn/Nabû-šarru-uṣur by the (tp)Ditch-of-… (ḫarri MU.ME): Zēria/Ša-Nabû-šū;
house of Natan/[…]-zēru-ibni the herdsman: Innin-[…]-ēreš;
house of Iddin-[…] the herdsman […];
house of Nabû-aḫḫē-iddin next to the field of Nā’id-Marduk: garden (kirû);
house of Nadnāya/Aplāya: deserted (nadi);
house of Nabû-aḫḫē-iddin at the Bridge of Nergal: oblates;
house of Amīl-Nanāya/Nergal-ušallim next to the big well house (bīt būrti rabīti): (the name of the new resident not given);
house of Nabû-šumu-ibni/Balāssu: (the name of the new resident not given), for 8 shekels;
house of Nabû-aḫḫē-iddin/Nabû-ahhē-bulliṭ: the temple scribe (ṭupšar bīti), for 8 shekels;
house of Taqīš-Gula next to the property of Bēl-ēreš/Kināya: garden (kirû);
house of Ištar-šumu-ēreš/Nabû-aḫḫē-šullim: (the name of the new resident not given);
the house of Nabû-aḫḫē-bulliṭ/Nadnāya: Nabû-maqtu-idekke;
4 houses of Ninurta-aḫu-iddin the courtier (ša rēši): Bēl-ibni/Nādinu, 30(?) …;
house of Nabû-šumu-uṣur/Nabû-zēru-ibni the herdsman: (the name of the new resident not given);
house of Nabû-zēru-ušebši/Bēl-ušallim the herdsman: (the name of the new resident not given);
house of Gimillu the fisherman/thief: (the name of the new resident not given);
house of Innin-šumu-uṣur/Šamaš-nāṣir: Arad-Innin;
house of Nabû-[…] herds[man]: […];
house of Nabû-zēru-ušebši: the new resident (lit. “replacement” tēnû) is Ištar-ālik-pāni.
For the interpretation of this text and the identification of individuals it features, see Jursa and Gordin 2018.
Further Information
- created by
- Małgorzata Sandowicz, June 29, 2025, 10:17 a.m.
- last updated by
- Julia Giessler, Aug. 19, 2025, 3:15 p.m.