Basic Metadata

NaBuCCo ID
6006
Museum No.
YBC 08778
Primary Publication
YOS 17 123
CDLI P-Identifier
P309611
Place of issue
No place
Regional setting
Uruk region
Archive
Eanna temple
Period
Neo-Babylonian
Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
Nbk. 19-II-05
Date BCE
16/05/586

Digeanna

Van Driel Files
10 k
Text Form
Receipt (maḫāru, eṭēru)
Legal Purpose
Administrative receipt ((ina qātē) maḫir; eṭir; also 'no verb')
Transaction Type
transactional (incoming)
Domain (Eanna)
Cult and pertinent craft production
Format of the tablet
portrait

Content

Paraphrase

36 were counted (manû).

Total: 36 mašīḫu of barley (uṭṭatu) were received from Marduk-šumu-ibni/Šūzubu.

Notes

The tablet's format is unusual for this genre of text. The first line may provide further evidence of the tally system used on some tablets from the Eanna (see Levavi 2022).


Further Information

created by
Sarah Grosser, Oct. 20, 2025, 9:57 a.m.
last updated by
Sarah Grosser, Jan. 30, 2026, 2:46 p.m.
Mentioned in the following publication(s)
YOS 17