Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 4959
- Museum No.
- VAT 14601 + VAT 16507
- Primary Publication
- AnOr 9 27
- Place of issue
- No place
- Regional setting
- Uruk region
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Neo-Babylonian
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Nbn. 15-00-00
- Date BCE
- 541
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. Tabulated.
- Format of the tablet
- unclear
Content
- Paraphrase
Dates and emmer for regular (ginû) and occasional offerings (guqqû) issued to bakers as sacrificial commodities and priestly remuneration (maššartu) for m.I–III of Nbn. 15. The list is divided into sections that detail royal and individual prebendary service shifts before different deities of Eanna. Bread, milk, and ku-lut-ti(?) are also issued.
1st section: m.I, before the Lady of Uruk, (issued) to: sons of Nabû-ēṭir, Mušēzib-Marduk, Mūrānu, Šulāya, Nergal-nāṣir, Rēmūtu, Bēl-uballiṭ (received by Gimillu, entrusted to Arad-Innin).
2nd section: m.II, before the Lady of Uruk, (issued) to: Nādinu/Aplāya, Lâbâši-Marduk, […] Madānu-aḫḫē-iddin (entrusted to Nanāya-aḫu-iddin), Bēl-uballiṭ (received by Gimillu, entrusted to […]), […] (received by Arad-Innin, entrusted to Gimillu/Nabû-šumu-iddin), […]-bān-aḫi, Nergal-ušallim, Sîn-[…].
3rd section: m.III, before the Lady of Uruk, (issued) to: Tabnēa, Lâbâši-Marduk, Innin-zēru-ušebši, […].
Another section(?): […] (received by […], entrusted to Arad-[…]), Lâbâši-Marduk, the temple of Sîn, Sūqāya, Šamaš-šumu-iddin and his brothers, perfumers’ workshop (bīt ḫilṣi), Ištar-aḫu-[…]; dates and emmer for makūtu-cakes to Nanāya-aḫu-iddin […] Urkayītu […].
Closin section(?): Mušēzib-Marduk, […]-iddin, […]-uballiṭ, Arad-Innin, Nādinu/Aplāya(?), Lâbâši-Marduk(?), Nanāya-aḫu-iddin, Gimillu/Nabû-šumu-iddin, […]-bān-aḫi, […]-ēṭir, Bānia, Innin-zēru-ušebši, Ištar-aḫu-[…], Bēl-nādin-[…], Innin-[…], Arad-[…], Nanāya-[…], Līširu, Šamaš-šumu-iddin and his brothers, Bēl-ēṭir-napšāti, Nādinu/Bēl-aḫḫē-iqīša, Innin-aḫḫē-iddin, Sūqāya, Lūṣi-ana-nūr-Šamaš.
A total of 337;1.4 dates were issued.
VAT 14601 = AnOr 9 27. VAT 16507 was joined by H. Freydank.
Further Information
- created by
- Małgorzata Sandowicz, June 30, 2025, 6:03 a.m.
- last updated by
- Małgorzata Sandowicz, July 3, 2025, 1:54 p.m.