Basic Metadata

NaBuCCo ID
6149
Museum No.
HMA 9-02533
Primary Publication
UCP 9/2 40
CDLI P-Identifier
P248260
Place of issue
No place
Regional setting
Uruk region
Archive
Eanna temple
Period
None
Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
XXX. yy-mm-dd

Digeanna

Van Driel Files
10 k
Text Form
List (various verbs, or also no verb)
Legal Purpose
Allocation (ina pāni)
Transaction Type
transactional (outgoing)
Domain (Eanna)
Animal husbandry
Formatting
True
Formatting remarks
paragraph lines separating the lists of flocks
Format of the tablet
portrait

Content

Paraphrase

List of 4 flocks of sheep and goats: 871 animals are at the disposal (ina pāni) of Gimillu/Nādinu, 841 animals are at the disposal of [...], 672 animals are at the disposal of Bēl-šumu-iškun/Nabû-aḫu-[...], [...] animals are at the disposal of Bēl-ibni/Lâbâši. The flocks show a typical ratio, consisting mainly of adult ewes, to a smaller part of male and young animals, and including only a few goats (adult and young, male and female). Each of the four entries ends with an enumeration of animals and ... (ud du).

For this type of text and its dating in the neo-Babylonian period cf. Aarslev 2023: 35-39.   

Transliteration
https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/balt/P248260

Further Information

created by
Julia Giessler, Nov. 4, 2025, 11:19 a.m.
last updated by
Julia Giessler, Nov. 4, 2025, 11:19 a.m.