Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 6570
- Museum No.
- VAT 16673
- Primary Publication
- VS 20 121
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P373297
- Place of issue
- No place
- Regional setting
- Uruk region
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- None
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- XXX. 00-00-00
Digeanna
- Van Driel Files
- 5 a
- Text Form
- List (various verbs, or also no verb)
- Legal Purpose
- Personnel (ṣābū ša … vel sim.)
- Transaction Type
- not applicable
- Domain (Eanna)
- Personnel management and labor allocation
- Formatting
- True
- Formatting remarks
- rulings, columns
- Format of the tablet
- portrait
Content
- Paraphrase
Tabulated lists of Eanna’s craftsmen.
The first group, whose subscript is broken off, includes: […]/Bēltu-[…] and his sons […]-bulliṭ, […]ša, […], Nanāya-aḫu-iddin, and […]-udammiqa(?); Šullumu/Nanāya-uṣalli and his sons Ibni-Ištar/Šullumu and Kinūnāya/Šullumu, and his brother Nabû-ēṭir; Aḫūnāya/Nūrea and his sons Ea-īpuš/Aḫūnāya, Ubāru/Aḫūnāya, and Ardia/Aḫūnāya.
26 potters follow, including: Amīl-Nanāya and his brother Bānītušu; Nanāya-ēreš/Zabdi-il and his son Zumbu/Nanāya-ēreš; Nabû-aḫḫē-iddin/Ērešu; Nabû-gāmil/Balāssu; Eanna-ibni/Amīl-Nanāya; Bēl-zēri, associate (šutāpu) of Bulluṭu; Iqīšāya/Lâbâši; Lā-qīpu/Zabdi-il; Nergal-iddin/Upāqu.
18 leatherworkers follow: Aḫḫēšāya/Zabidāya, leatherworker working with tents (aškāp zarāti), and his son Mušallim-Marduk/Aḫḫēšāya; Šamaš-erība/Nabû-nāṣir and his sons Tabnēa/Šamaš-erība and Bēl-ušallim/Šamaš-erība; Kudurru/Iddin-[…]; Rēmūtu/Ina-tēšî-ēṭir and his sons Nanāya-šumu-ibni/Rēmūtu, Nabû-iddin/Rēmūtu, Ina-ṣilli-Nanāya/Rēmūtu; Balāssu/Adad-aḫu-uṣur; Nanāya-iddin; Arad-Nanāya/Nabû-uṣalli and his son Eanna-līpi-uṣur/Arad-Nanāya; Nādin-aḫi/Nabû-ēreš; Nabû-ēṭir/Kīnāya and his son Nanāya-ēreš/Nabû-ēṭir; Barikī/Zākiru.
[x] carpenters follow, including Bānītušu/Saḫḫiru […]; Balāssu/Ardia; Nanāya-uṣalli.
In the last, broken column the following craftsmen are listed: Marduk/Iqīša and his brother Bēl-ušallim/Iqīša; Rēmūtu/Iddin-Nergal and his son […]ši-Bēl/Rēmūtu; […]-šar-aḫḫēšu/Ērešu; […]a/Bibēa and his son […]-nāṣir/[…]a; […]ānu/Ibnāya; Ēzu-u-pāšir/Nabû-ušēzib; […]a/[…]-ušēzib and his son […]-zēru-iddin/[…]a; […]-nāṣir/Bēl-rēmanni and his sons […]li/[…]-nāṣir and Nabû-šumu-iškun/[…]-nāṣir; […]-ēreš/Ēzu-u-pāšir and his sons […]dia/[…]-ēreš and Amīl-Nabû/[…]-ēreš; […]/Ibnāya and his son […].
Further Information
- created by
- Małgorzata Sandowicz, Dec. 31, 2025, 11:36 a.m.
- last updated by
- Piotr Turowski, Feb. 25, 2026, 3:15 p.m.
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- VS 20 (1978)