Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 659
- Museum No.
- VAT 08498
- Primary Publication
- AnOr 9 01
- Place of issue
- No place
- Regional setting
- Uruk region
- Places mentioned on Tablet
- Bīt-Zu-gunabu
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Early Neo-Babylonian
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- XXX. yy---dd
- Inferred date
- 718 or later
- Date BCE
- 718
Digeanna
- Van Driel Files
- 8 b
- Text Form
- List (various verbs, or also no verb)
- Legal Purpose
- Cadaster (...)
- Transaction Type
- not applicable
- Domain (Eanna)
- Higher-order management and policies
- Formatting
- True
- Formatting remarks
- paragraph lines
- Format of the tablet
- landscape
Content
- Paraphrase
List of plots of land (qaqqaru) seized by 91 chiefs of fifty (rab ḫanšē) at the time of (ina pāni) Marduk-aplu-iddin. The plots measure 150 (cubits) each, with 1100 (cubits) of the temple corresponding to 1000 (cubits of the king). They are located at the bank of the (tp)Ditch of Marduk-aplu-iddina (ḫarru ša Marduk-aplu-iddin), between the border (miṣru) of (tp)Bīt-Zu-gunabu and the mooring places (makallû) of ḫanšu-plots at the (tp)Ditch of Nabû-šumu-līšir (ḫarru ša Nabû-šumu-līšir). Ina-qībi-Bēl-abluṭ, kartappu-official, installed them there. The chiefs are:
Ērešu/Nāṣiru, Mēreštu/Balāssu, Zākiru/Nummuru, Ibnāya/Aplāya, Bēl-aḫu-iddin/Bulṭāya, Ittabši/Erībunu, Nabû-aḫḫē-iddin/Līšir, Ṣillāya/Kudurru, Dūr-Marduk (or: Tukulti-Marduk?)/Zākiru, Tarību/Nabāya, Šullumu/Rēmūtu, Ṣillāya/Bēl-iqīša, Zākiru/Nabû-lēʼi, Bēl-aḫḫē-erība/Aḫu-lurši, Bābī/Zēria, Ibāya/Aḫu-šubši, Nabû-ēreš/Bul(luṭu?), Nergal-ibni/Erībāya, Kudurru/Šamḫu-ilī, Būr-Adad/Dayyān-Bēl, Balāssu/Nūrēa, Marduk/Rāši-ili, Aḫḫūtu/Aplāya, Bēl-lēʼi/Bēl-ušallim, Zērūtu/Bēlā, Rēmūtu/Erībāya, Kalūmu/Nabāya, Nabû-naʼid/Bēlā, Mēreštu/Nabû-ušebši, Nabû-aḫḫē-iddin/Bēl-usātu, Arrabu/Balāssu, Nabû-zēru-ibni/Rēmūtu, Marduk/Rēmūtu, Nabû-bēl-ilī/Imbi-Anu, Šāpiku/Iddināya, Isinnāya/Nabû-nāṣir, Bēl-iqīša/Bēl-uballiṭ, Nabû-ušallim/Isinnāya, Kudurru/Kallāya?, Rēmūtu/Mušebšu, Ērešu/Balāssu, Šullumu/Bēl-uballiṭ, Šumu-ukīn/Nabû-ēreš, Nabû-īpuš/Šullumu, Nabû-iddin/Nanāya-īpuš, Lâbâši/Zēria, Mušebšu/Nabû-aḫḫē-iddin, Nanāya-uṣalli/Nanāya-īpuš, Pirʼu/Bêl-ušebši, Nummuru/Etellu, Šulāya/Ilûa, Kudurru/Dummuqāya, Lâbâši/Rēmūtu, Šumāya/Bulluṭu, Ḫuddāya/Šumu-ukīn, Kudurru/Eššēšu-ibni, Nabû-aḫḫē-iddin/Kabti-ilāni, Balāssu/Aplāya, Nādin-aḫi/Nabû-ušēzib, Aḫḫēšāya?/Nabû-ušēzib, Zākiru/Balāssu, Nadnāya/Marduk, Ibnāya/Nuḫšāya, Nabû-aḫḫē-iddin/Rāši-ili, Aḫḫēa/Nabû-īpuš, Nanāya-uballiṭ/Kudurru, Nanāya-īpuš/Aḫḫēiau (I.ŠEŠ.me-ia5-u; cf. Thissen 2024: 271), Nabû-ušēzib/Iqīšāya, Šullumu/Bēlā, Nabû-ušebši/Tarību, Baltānu/Imbia, Nādinu/Ērešu, Nabû-ušallim/Nabû-aḫḫē-iddin, Iqīšāya/Nabû-ušallim, Nabû-īpuš/Līšir, Nabû-nāṣir/Nabû-iddin, Nabû-šumu-iškun/Nabû-iddin, Ša-pî-ilia/Zērūtu, Aḫḫēa/Aplāya, Bēl-lēʼi/Aḫḫēiau, Kīnāya/Nādin-apli, Ša-pîšu/Tappûa, Nabû-zēru-iddin/Šullumāya, Nabû-īpuš/Agru, Iqīšāya/Ḫašdia, Nabû-uṣalli/Kidināya, Aplāya/Iddia, Šulāya/Aḫu-lūmur, Ṣululu/Balāssu, Ina-qībi-Bēl/Kudurru, Šulāya/Kudurru.
Note:
For the correspondence of temple cubits and royal cubits see Cocquerillat 1968: 2545.
- Legacy Paraphrase
Administrative document concerning a royal land grant: 91 officials in charge of hanšû-land (rab hanšê) each receive 150 of x-measure land from the king. The granted land reaches from the bank of the Canal of Marduk-apla-iddina as far as the border of Bīt-Zu-gunabu. It is determined that 1,100 of x-measure “of the temple” equal to 1,000 of x-measure “of the king.” Note that the measurement unit is never given along with the numbers.
Further Information
- Type and Content
- Multiple (list)
- last updated by
- Julia Giessler, June 9, 2026, 3:42 p.m.
- Imported (Person, Date)
- Melanie Gross (26/05/2016)
- Legacy NaBuCCo ID
- 5670
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- Cocquerillat 1968