VAT 14607 + VAT 14608 + VAT 16509

Basic Metadata

NaBuCCo ID
4957
Museum No.
VAT 14607 + VAT 14608 + VAT 16509
Primary Publication
AnOr 9 25
Place of issue
No place
Regional setting
Uruk region
Archive
Eanna temple
Period
None
Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
XXX. 00-00-00

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
Sections are separated by horizontal lines.
Format of the tablet
unclear

Content

Paraphrase

Emmer and dates for regular (ginû) and occasional offerings (guqqû) issued to bakers as sacrificial commodities and priestly remuneration (maššartu). The list is divided into sections that detail royal and individual prebendary service shifts before different deities of Eanna.

1st (extant) section: […] (issued to) […] Ardia […], entrusted to Nanāya-aḫu-iddin.

2nd section: m.II, before Nanāya, (issued to) Nabû-ēṭir-napšāti, Silim-Bēl, Anu-šumu-ibni(?) […].

3rd section: m.III, before Nanāya, (issued to) […], received by Imbia, entrusted to Gimillu, […] Arad-Innin […].

4th section: m.I, before Uṣur-amāssu, (issued to) […]-aḫu-iddin, Arad-Innin and Marduka, Sîn-ibni […].

5th section: m.II, before Uṣur-amāssu, (issued to) Ardia (received by Balāṭu), entrusted to […]-aḫḫē(?), Sîn-ibni, Bēl-[…], Nabû-bān-aḫi, Ištar-aḫu-iddin, Nādinu, Gimillu.

6th section: m.III, before Uṣur-amāssu (issued to) Bēl-nādin-apli, Anu-šumu-ibni, Innin-aḫḫē-iddin, Nabû-šumu-uṣur, Ištar-aḫu-iddin.

7th section: Sîn […] Anu-šumu-ibni, temple […], temple of Ninurta, Lūṣi-ana-nūr-Šamaš, Ištar-šumu-ibni […] will present (qerēbu D).

 

VAT 14607 = AnOr 9 25. VAT 14608 and VAT 16509 have been joined by H. Freydank.


Further Information

created by
Małgorzata Sandowicz, June 30, 2025, 5:50 a.m.
last updated by
Małgorzata Sandowicz, July 3, 2025, 1:53 p.m.