Basic Metadata

NaBuCCo ID
4961
Museum No.
VAT 14611
Primary Publication
AnOr 9 30
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
4 f
Text Form
List (various verbs, or also no verb)
Legal Purpose
Issue (nadin)
Transaction Type
transactional (outgoing)
Domain (Eanna)
Storehouse management and allocation of silver
Format of the tablet
unclear

Content

Paraphrase

Allotment of silver to several individuals (Nergal-iddin or Nergal-šumu-[…], […]-ēreš, Pir’u, Gimillu, Nūrea, Bēl-ušallim, Nabû-balāssu-iqbi, […]-iškun) and for various purposes (a large silver namḫaru-vat, beer for IGI.DU and Bēltu […], ritual arrangements (riksu) for bronze kettledrum (rikis lilissu), silver vats (dannu).

Some of it is the rest (of the silver) from small temples (ekurrātu).

 

See Beaulieu 2003: 293 for the interpretation of this text as a list of silver allotments. Freydank 1971 no. 145 considers it a list of daily service shifts.


Further Information

created by
Małgorzata Sandowicz, June 30, 2025, 6:18 a.m.
last updated by
Małgorzata Sandowicz, July 3, 2025, 1:56 p.m.