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.