Basic Metadata

NaBuCCo ID
6671
Museum No.
YBC 07538
Primary Publication
YOS 6 189
CDLI P-Identifier
P308482
Place of issue
No place
Regional setting
Uruk region
Archive
Eanna temple
Period
Neo-Babylonian
Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
Nbn. 17-VII-08
Date BCE
04/10/539

Digeanna

Van Driel Files
7 b
Text Form
List (various verbs, or also no verb)
Legal Purpose
Journal (various, most often ina pāni, nadin, apil, eṭir, šūbulu)
Transaction Type
transactional (incoming)
Domain (Eanna)
Storehouse management and allocation of miscellaneous goods
Format of the tablet
portrait

Content

Paraphrase

Utensils of silver and of gold for the ceremony of the Greeting of the Temple (šullum bīti) at Nbn 17.VII.8 were taken out, returned, and stored:

1 adaru-vessel of silver, 16 vats of silver (dannu), 3 namḫāru-vessels (of silver), 6 malītu-vessels of silver therein 1 in the houses’ cella (pappaḫu), 2 šiddatu-stands of silver cubicle surrounded by curtains (birīt šiddī), 4 namzītu-vats of silver, 1 basket on a stand for libation, 1 tangallû-vessel (for) salt for sprinkling (lapātu), 14 libbû-vessels of gold, 14 šulāpu-ornaments of gold, 1 small malītu-vessel of gold of the servant in charge of the utensils (suḫar ša udê),... 

(reconstructed following YOS 6 192: 17): 1 gold libation vessel (maqqû) for the Greeting of the Temple ceremony, 2 šappu-bowls of alabaster, 4 lyres (and their) gold attachments (mandītu) (sent) for repair in the house of the simānu-luthier.


Further Information

created by
Sarah Grosser, Jan. 11, 2026, 11:47 a.m.
last updated by
Sarah Grosser, Jan. 30, 2026, 4:36 p.m.
Mentioned in the following publication(s)
Salonen 1976
YOS 6