Basic Metadata

NaBuCCo ID
6157
Museum No.
HMA 9-02585
Primary Publication
UCP 9/2 48
CDLI P-Identifier
P248312
Place of issue
No place
Regional setting
Uruk city
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
Issue (nadin)
Transaction Type
transactional (outgoing)
Domain (Eanna)
Animal husbandry
Format of the tablet
landscape

Content

Paraphrase

List of hundreds of sheep, used for regular offerings (ginû) within 4-6 years. The list includes occasional offerings (guqqû), offerings before Šamaš, once pertaining to the perfumer’s workshop (bīt ḫilṣi), niqû-offerings, nocturnal offering rituals (bayyātu), the kinūnu-ritual (? or: sheep (roasted on) a kinūnu-kiln, lit.: UDU šá NE), the clothing ceremony (lubuštu), and the maksūtu-ceremony.

Several dates in year 13 and 14 are mentioned within the text, but the name of the king is missing.

Transliteration
https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/balt/P248312

Further Information

created by
Julia Giessler, Nov. 5, 2025, 9:45 a.m.
last updated by
Julia Giessler, Nov. 5, 2025, 9:45 a.m.