Basic Metadata

NaBuCCo ID
6673
Museum No.
YBC 06897
Primary Publication
YOS 6 192
CDLI P-Identifier
P307913
Place of issue
No place
Regional setting
Uruk region
Archive
Eanna temple
Period
Neo-Babylonian
Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
Nbn. 15-IX-08
Date BCE
24/11/541

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 Greeting of the Temple ceremony (šullum bīti) that were taken out of the treasure-house (bīt urinni) on Nbn 15.IX.8. 

On Nbn 15.IX.7:

1 adaru-vessel of silver, 16 vats of silver (dannu), 15 kankannu-potstands of silver, 4 namzītu-vats for (the ceremony) between the dividing curtains (birit šiddu), 2 šiddatu-stands of silver for (the ceremony) between the dividing curtains, 3 namḫāru-vessels of silver, 6 malītu-vessels of silver, 1 basket on a stand of silver for libation, 1 tangallû-vessel salt for sprinkling (luppūtu), 14 libbû-vessels of gold, 14 šulāpu-ornaments of gold, 1 small malītu-vessel of gold for the servant in charge of the utensils (suḫar ša udê), 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 workshop (bīt ummâni, written ú!(SI)-man-nu).

In m.IX (they were) stored (kanāzu) in the treasure-house (bīt urinni):

From it, 2 vats (dannu) of silver, 2 namzītu-fermenting vats, 1 šiddatu-stand for the (ceremony) between the dividing curtains, 4 libbû-vessels of gold, 4 šulāpu-ornaments of gold, 1 malītu-vessel of silver, 2 kankannu-potstands, 1 basket on a stand for libations in the temple of Uṣur-amāssu.


Further Information

created by
Sarah Grosser, Jan. 11, 2026, 12:30 p.m.
last updated by
Marie Young, June 10, 2026, 12:19 p.m.
Mentioned in the following publication(s)
Salonen 1976
YOS 6