Basic Metadata

NaBuCCo ID
5997
Museum No.
NBC 04605
Primary Publication
YOS 17 115
CDLI P-Identifier
P297624
Place of issue
No place
Regional setting
Uruk region
Archive
Eanna temple
Period
Neo-Babylonian
Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
Nbk. 05-IX-05
Date BCE
13/12/600

Digeanna

Van Driel Files
10 k
Text Form
List (various verbs, or also no verb)
Legal Purpose
Withdrawal (našû)
Transaction Type
transactional (janus)
Domain (Eanna)
Craft production (non-cult related)
Format of the tablet
portrait

Content

Paraphrase

1000 sheep and goats (ṣēnu) from Bēl-[...]

25 talents of wool at his disposal

1000 (sheep and goats) from Ṭāb-Uruk/[...]

25 talents of wool at his disposal

500 (sheep and goats from) [GN]-ilāni/Šumāya

12 1/2 talents of wool at his disposal

500 (sheep and goats from) Abbunu/Natan

10 talents of wool at his disposal

130 (sheep and goats from) Bēl-aḫḫē-iqīša/Tabnēa

3 talents 15 minas of wool at his disposal

240 (sheep and goats from) Ṣillāya/Nabû-iašu

6 talents 15 minas of wool at his disposal

[x]40 (sheep and goats from) Ilī-bān-aḫi/[...]

[x+]3 loads 55 minas wool at his disposal

[...] Bēlšunu [...]

Total: 32 minas 42 shekels of silver at the disposal of Marduk-šumu-uṣur/Zērūtu

25 minas of his silver, the price of (šāmu) 1 mina 1/3 3 shekels gold (ḫurāṣu) and of his sheep (immeru) he will receive full payment therein become well (šalāmu) and the remaining silver he will pay. 4 minas of wool he will charge (manû) against the workers (ṣabû).

He will not withdraw (našû) the wool at the disposition of the workers, he will give it from the Eanna. 

Notes

o.6: The scribe wrote 21 1/2 but it should be an inversion for 12 1/2 talent.

o.15-r.3: broken


Further Information

created by
Sarah Grosser, Oct. 20, 2025, 9:17 a.m.
last updated by
Sarah Grosser, Jan. 30, 2026, 2:41 p.m.
Mentioned in the following publication(s)
YOS 17