Basic Metadata

NaBuCCo ID
7275
Museum No.
CBS 06113
Primary Publication
BE 08 158
CDLI P-Identifier
P263888
Regional setting
Nippur region
Places mentioned on Tablet
Bīt-Zazakku
Archive
Ekur (early)
Period
Early Achaemenid
Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
Dar I. 1-mm-dd
Date BCE
521

Digeanna

Text Form
List (various verbs, or also no verb)
Legal Purpose
Journal (various, most often ina pāni, nadin, apil, eṭir, šūbulu)
Format of the tablet
portrait

Content

Paraphrase

Barley of the temple (makkūr Enlil) at the disposal (ina qātē) of Bēlšunu/Ninurta-nāṣir, which was given as the nisḫu-expenses of Dar. 01 in (tp)Bīt-Zazakku (é {I}(sic.)za-za-ak-ku):

Ninurta-aplu-iddin/Bān-aḫi owes (ina muḫḫi) 10;0 barley, 2;0 emmer and 6 vats (dannu) full of quality beer; Aqara/Bān-aḫi owes 4;0 barley; Bēl-balāssu/Iddin-Bēl and Nabû-uballiṭ/Bēl-balāssu owe 12;1 barley, 6 vats of quality beer; Abdâ/Ēribā (Abd) owes 3;0.2 barley and some (mi-i-mu) silver; Zabdāya/Iddin-Nabû owes 1;0 barley: Abd guarantees for the payment (pūtu eṭēru našû); Enlil-ittannu/Enlil-na'id owes 7 vats of beer and 1;0.4 barley; Banê-Esagil/A-[…] owes 2;0.1 barley; Šullumāya/Iddin-Bēl and Bēl-aplu-iddin/… owe 2;0 barley, 1 vat of quality beer, 2;1 dates; Pir... owes 0;1 barley; Mādi-Ila'/Arad-Gula and Ḫa[…]/Arad-Gula owe 0;1.2 barley; Mādu-Enlil/Ninurta-x owes 1;0 barley; Arad-Enlil/Kināya owes 1 vat of quality beer; Enlil-ittannu/Rāši-ilī (EI), and Enlil-nāṣir/Enlil-iddin owe 0;2.3 barley; Tattannu/Enlil-uballiṭ and Šulluma/Iddin-Bēl owe 0;2.3 barley, which is the price of 1š silver given for fish; EI (additionally owes) 2⅔ vats (of beer); Lâbâši/Šamaš-iddin owes 1 vat of good quality beer; Enlil-x-x/Ninurta-iqīša owes 0;2.4 barley; Enlil-šumu-iddin/Balāṭu owes 2800 bricks; 3š silver at the disposal (ina muḫḫi) Bēlšunu/Ṭābtanāya; Nādin-aḫi/Kināya  owes 0;4 kor barley; Aqūpu/Tuqunu-eššu owes 0;2.3 barley.

Note that in CDLI, the CBS no. is mistakenly mixed with CBS 6131 (https://cdli.earth/artifacts/263899).

The lines are often not very straight, and some signs extend above or below the line, as if the hand were insufficiently skilled. The signs are also rather spacious (and relatively deep?), which may likewise point to a junior scribe.


Further Information

created by
Yuval Levavi, March 4, 2026, 8:30 a.m.
last updated by
Yuval Levavi, May 13, 2026, 8:22 a.m.