Basic Metadata

NaBuCCo ID
6136
Museum No.
HMA 9-02443
Primary Publication
UCP 9/2 27
CDLI P-Identifier
P248170
Place of issue
No place
Regional setting
Uruk region
Archive
Eanna temple
Period
Neo-Babylonian
Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
Nbk. 38-00-13
Inferred date
567-566

Digeanna

Van Driel Files
7 i
Text Form
List (various verbs, or also no verb)
Legal Purpose
Issue (nadin)
Transaction Type
transactional (outgoing)
Domain (Eanna)
Storehouse management and allocation of miscellaneous goods
Formatting
True
Formatting remarks
paragraph line under the opening section
Format of the tablet
portrait

Content

Paraphrase

List of aromatic substances (rīqu) and powders (summiddītu) which have been given (nadānu) to Nabû-mušētiq-uddi/Aplāya for the work (dullu) in the perfumersʼ workshop (bīt ḫilṣi):

3 minas each of: cedar!-wood (erēnu, copy shows: ḫa šur), cypress-wood (šurmēnu), myrtle (asu), aromatic resin (šimeššalû), sweet reed (qanû ṭābu), ballukku-plant, suādu-plant, ṣumlalû-aromatic, bdellium-tree (budulḫu, ŠIM bi-dur!-ḫu); 1.5 mina myrrh (murru); 3 minas of [...]; 50 shekels each of: resin (ḫīlu) of galbanum? (ḫalbānātu), hemp (? qunnabu, lit.: qu-<un-na-bu>?), (chick-)?pea (ḫallūru, še.gú! [gal?]); 15 shekels of ladnu-aromatic); ½ (shekel?) of juniper (burāšu) in a sūtu-container of 0;0.1.1½ capacity; 0;0.0.2 yāruttu-substance; 0;0.0.3 lentils? (kakkû); 15 minas of wool; 1/3 shekel of: imported? (kur.ra) red wool (tabarru) (and) blue wool (takiltu) for yarns (ṭīmu); 3 measures (mašīḫu) of sesame.

The date is given in the opening section.

Duplicate of Durand 1982 no. 607 (EPHE).

For the reading of Nabû-mušētiq-uddi in l. 3 and further attestations for this man see Joannès 2006. The copy shows: Nabû-šumu-ēreš. See there also for further emendations. For ḫalbānātu see Jursa 2009.

Transliteration
https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/balt/P248170

Further Information

created by
Julia Giessler, Nov. 3, 2025, 10:51 a.m.
last updated by
Julia Giessler, June 9, 2026, 10:11 a.m.
Mentioned in the following publication(s)
Joannès 2006a