Basic Metadata

NaBuCCo ID
6008
Museum No.
YBC 03757
Primary Publication
YOS 6 113
CDLI P-Identifier
P305115
Place of issue
No place
Regional setting
Uruk city
Archive
Eanna temple
Period
Neo-Babylonian
Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
XXX. yy-mm-dd
Inferred date
Nbn 7 - Nbn 8 = 548-547 BCE

Digeanna

Van Driel Files
7 f
Text Form
List (various verbs, or also no verb)
Legal Purpose
Issue (nadin)
Transaction Type
transactional (outgoing)
Domain (Eanna)
Cult and pertinent craft production
Format of the tablet
landscape

Content

Paraphrase

Linen thread (ṭīmu) given (nadna) to the weaver (išparu) in Nbn 7: 

1 m.I : 55 shekels to the weaver, 10 shekels for the cella (bīt papāḫi)
16 m.VI: 1 1/2 mina to the weaver, 10 shekels for the cella 
7 m.VII: 1 mina to the weaver, 10 shekels for the cella 
6 m.IX: 1 mina to the weaver, 10 shekels for the cella 
1 m.XII: 1 mina to the weaver, 10 shekels for the cella 
10 m.XII: 1/3 shekel for the tākipu-stitcher of the curtain (gidlû)
1/2 mina for a blanket (taḫapšu)

Linen thread (ṭīmu) that was given (nadna) to the weaver (išparu) in Nbn 8:
1 mina for the weaver, 1/3 shekel for the workshop (bīt dulli)
15 m.IV: 1 mina to the weaver
[x] m.VI: 1 mina to the weaver, 1/3 shekel for the workshop and for the cella
6 m.[x]: 1 mina to the weaver, 10 shekels for the workshop, 10 shekels for the cella
5 m.VII: 1 mina to the weaver, [x] shekels for the workshop and the cella
6 m.IX: 1 mina to the weaver, [x] shekels for the cella
20 m.XI: 1 1/2 mina to the weaver, 1/2 mina for the workshop
1 m.XII: 10 shekels for the cella
1/2 mina for a blanket (taḫapšu)


Further Information

created by
Marie Young, Oct. 20, 2025, 4:28 p.m.
last updated by
Marie Young, Oct. 20, 2025, 4:29 p.m.
Mentioned in the following publication(s)
Payne 2007 (unpubl. PhD diss.)
Quillien 2022