Basic Metadata

NaBuCCo ID
7069
Museum No.
BM 30210
Primary Publication
ZA 103/2 (2013), 230-236
CDLI P-Identifier
P572544
Regional setting
Uruk region
Archive
Eanna temple
Period
Neo-Babylonian
Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
XXX. yy-mm-dd
Inferred date
ca. 626/25 – 620/19 BCE

Digeanna

Van Driel Files
6 b
Text Form
List (various verbs, or also no verb)
Legal Purpose
Issue (nadin)
Transaction Type
transactional (outgoing)
Domain (Eanna)
Storehouse management and allocation of silver
Formatting
True
Formatting remarks
Horizontal rulings
Format of the tablet
portrait

Content

Paraphrase

Allotment of silver to bakers and brewers in the service of Bēltia, Nanāya, and the Lady of Rēš and for the occasional offerings (guqqû) for the period of m.VIII-X.

The document contains 9 entries, organized into 4 categories: amount of silver issued; goddess served; month of service; duration of service of a remunerated prebendary.

1) 20 shekels; Bēltia; m.VIII; 15 days of Nabû-ēṭir;

2) 40 shekels; Bēltia; m.IX; 15 days of Nabû-ēṭir and 15 days of Gimillu;

3) 26 2/3 shekels; Bēltia; m.X; 6 days of Nabû-ēṭir and 14 days of Bēl-ibni;

4) 20 shekels; Nanāya; m.VIII; 15 days of Bēl-ibni;

5) 33 1/3 shekels; Nanāya; m.IX; 10 days of Gimillu, 4 days of Kunāya; 5 days of Bēl-ibni, and 5 days of Nabû-ēṭir;

6) 30 shekels; Lady of Rēš; m.IX; 7 ½ days of Nāˀid-Marduk and 15 days of Bēl-ibni/Šullumu;

7) 20 shekels; Lady of Rēš; m.X; 15 days of Marduk;

8) 19 shekels; Uṣur-amāssu; m.VIII; 10 days of Bēl-ibni;

9) 28 3/8 shekels; Uṣur-amāssu; m.IX; 15 days of Bēl-ibni.

Total payments:

- 3 minas 7 3/8 shekels to brewers;

- 1 mina 36 ½ shekels to bakers;

- 1 mina 31 ½ shekels for the occasional offerings (guqqû).

Transliteration
https://www.ebl.lmu.de/library/BM.30210

Further Information

created by
Piotr Turowski, Feb. 6, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
last updated by
Piotr Turowski, May 13, 2026, 10:18 a.m.
Mentioned in the following publication(s)
ZA 103/2 (2013), 230-236