Basic Metadata

NaBuCCo ID
4997
Museum No.
GCBC 00246
Primary Publication
GCCI 1 391
CDLI P-Identifier
P294145
Place of issue
No place
Regional setting
Uruk region
Places mentioned on Tablet
Madakalšu
Archive
Eanna temple
Period
Neo-Babylonian
Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
Nbn. 07-VII-09
Date BCE
19/10/549

Digeanna

Van Driel Files
7 a
Text Form
Note (...)
Legal Purpose
Withdrawal (našû)
Transaction Type
transactional (outgoing)
Domain (Eanna)
Storehouse management and allocation of silver
Format of the tablet
landscape

Content

Paraphrase

Šadûnu of (tp)Madakalšu withdrew (našû) 38 ⅓ shekels of silver as the purchase price of 2 9/10 shekels of naltar-gold, at the rate of 12 shekels of silver for one shekel of gold, and of ⅖ shekels gold, at the rate of 6 shekels of silver for one shekel of gold. 

Note: Based on the rates given, the price should be 37.2 shekels.


Further Information

created by
Dylan Schimek, July 3, 2025, 1:36 p.m.
last updated by
Dylan Schimek, Oct. 5, 2026, 3:10 p.m.
Mentioned in the following publication(s)
Kaskal 13 (2016), 121-134
Kleber 2017
Zadok 1985