HMA 9-02537

Long list (with 3 columns) of expenses covering 2 years.

Silver was issued in year 6: for palm leave baskets (qappatu) to (ina pāni) Bēl-ušallim/Iddināya, [...] deficit in wool^(?), [...] of/for millers (ararru); for digging the (tp)canal (of?) Nanāya to Šamaš-erība/Nergal-šumu-ibni (? or Šamaš-erība and Nergal-šumu-ibni), for digging ... (tp)Šaqallat Canal^?; for mudbricks to Tarībi/Eanna-šarru-uṣur, for wages (idū) of shepherds^(?); for paying (eṭēru) Nergal-dān (^IdU.GUR-da*-nu*) for [...], for the hired workers (agru) (making?) baked bricks (agurru), ... (m/ba-da-a-x) wool and nūṭu-bags (to) Silim-Bēl and Innin-zēru-ibni/Nabû-ušallim,  for straw (tibnu) to Marduk-šumu-ibni, for ... (copy: igi si igi lu), (to) Innin -zēru-ibni/Nabû-ušallim, who (brought?) … wool, for wages (idū) of workers (ṣābu) ...; for shrubbery (abattu) of reed bundles (? šūru) to Nādinu/Kudurru; for the rent (idu) of a magallu^?-boat, which is at the disposal of [...]-ibni/Za/Ša-šu-[...], [...]; for [...] of boats to Nabû-napšāti-ēṭir (= Nabû-ēṭir-napšāti?) and Ša-Nabû-šū/Kudurru; for shrubbery (and/of?) ... (ṣab^? tu um me e) boats, for palm-leave baskets to Bēl-aḫu-iddin/Nanāya-ēreš, for paying Tabnēa//Bāʼiru the price for his aromatics (riqqu); for straw to Nabû-aḫu-iddin, the kal^?-[...], for naphta (napṭu, nap*-ṭu) and reeds that ... the cattle shed^? (bīt^? alpi, [...] gu₄) to Ša-Nanāya-tašmētu; for palm leave baskets for the work (dullu) at [...]

Silver was issued in year 7: for [...], for shrubbery to Nanāya-ēreš, for the rent (idu) of a boat to the carpenter Nabû-ušallim; for shrubbery to Bēl-ēreš and Nabû-zēru-iqīša/Marduk-nāṣir; for shrubbery to Amīl-Nanāya, to Nabû-ušallim, who (carried?) seeds^? onto the boat of (ina pāni) Bēl-šumu-iškun/Bēlšunu; for ... (a-b/ma-a-ti) to the oblate Bēl-ibni; for shrubbery to [...]/Gudādû; for flour for Iṣṣūru; [...] for aromatics to Saggilia; for bow-cases (tillû) to Zērūtu/Šamaš-erība; for bows (qaštu) to Nabû-ušallim/Nergal-rēmanni, Naʼid-Marduk, archer, and Kudurru/Nabû-nāṣir; for thick^(?) hide(s) (KUŠ ḫu-ba-ṣe-e), for bow-cases to Nabû-ēṭir-napšāti, overseer (šāpiru) of the brewers; for digging a canal to Nabû-ušēzib, who is responsible for ...; [...]; for the price of a lead (abāru) [...], to Bēl-ēṭir, for [...], for the price of wax (iškūru), (and) for a total of merchandise (mēreštu) ... to Nabû-ušallim.

Several dates, on which payments were made, are mentioned. The last fully preserved one is 07.II.11 (without the name of the king).

Collation of the name Nergal-dān (coll. II l. 20) and naptu (coll. III l. 58) by Małgorazata Sandowicz based on the photo of the tablet.

Ša-Nanāya-tašmētu is attested as a cattle fattener in the reign of Nbk.; see UCP 9/1, 39; probably the same person as in UCP 9/1, 26, and UCP 9/1, 57.