Basic Metadata

NaBuCCo ID
4987
Museum No.
AO 08599
Primary Publication
TBER 31a
CDLI P-Identifier
P492976
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
8 b
Text Form
List (various verbs, or also no verb)
Legal Purpose
Other or sfs (various verbs)
Transaction Type
not applicable
Domain (Eanna)
Higher-order management and policies
Formatting
True
Formatting remarks
Line after each verse.
Format of the tablet
portrait

Content

Paraphrase

List of irrigation districts (tamirtu) and other estates. Their size is provided, expressed by the length of the properties’ frontage (in cubits).

the (tp)Bēl-[…] irrigation district (size broken off),

(tp)Bīt-[…]-da-bi (size broken off),

the (tp)Ḫubat of Ālu-ša-Ṣur-Adad (=(tp)Ālu-ša-Iṣṣur-Adad) irigation district (100),

the (tp)Ḫarrāti irrigation district (100),

the (tp)Dadānu irrigation district, neighboring on the canal […] in (tp)Uḫudu-ša-Ḫu[…] (400),

the area on (tp)Ḫarri-Arali (300),

(tp)Well of […] (būrti d[…]) (100),

the (tp)Bīt-Bābilāya irrigation district (100),

the (tp)Kapri-ša-pīri irrigation district (200),

the (tp)Bīt-Iqīšāya irrigation district (400),

the (tp)Bābi irrigation district (100),

the (tp)Kuṣāya(!) irrigation district (100),

the estate (šīḫu) of Marduk-aplu-uṣur on the discharge canal (ḫiltu) (or: (tp)Ḫiltu Canal) (100),

the province (pīḫātu) of Uga (260),

(tp)Great Nazzû (200),

(tp)Small Nazzû (100),

the (tp)Nuḫšanitu irrigation district (100),

(tp)Irrigation District of Horses (tamirtu ša sisê) (200),

the area between (tp)Hills of Nanāya (tillī ša Nanāya) (400),

the (tp)Bēlāya irrigation district (200),

Dūru-ša-Gidānu (400),

the narrow irrigation district in (tp)Ḫuṣṣētu-ša-Nabû-nāṣir(!) (ḫu-uṣ-ṣe-e-nu) (200),

the (tp)Šingu irrigation district (1200),

the (tp)Waterway of Bīt-Nabû (ḫiltu ša bīt Nabû) irrigation district (200),

(tp)Ḫuṣṣētu-ša-Aḫḫūti (100),

the area in the (tp)Rudāya irrigation district belonging to (ša) Bīt-Nabû (100),

the (tp)Ḫubaba irrigation district belonging to Bīt-Nabû (200),

the area belonging to (tp)Dimtu-ša-Nanāya (di-in-du) (1000),

the area belonging to the (tp)Nūnū irrigation district (200),

the (tp)Birḫīni irrigation district.


Further Information

created by
Małgorzata Sandowicz, July 2, 2025, 8:50 a.m.
last updated by
Małgorzata Sandowicz, July 3, 2025, 6:34 p.m.