Basic Metadata

NaBuCCo ID
7278
Museum No.
CBS 12795
Primary Publication
BE 08 037
CDLI P-Identifier
P267396
Regional setting
Nippur city
Archive
Ekur (early)
Period
Neo-Babylonian
Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
Ner. yy-mm-dd

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
landscape

Content

Paraphrase

A continuous list of personal names regarding […] corvée worker dues )urāšu( and tithe expenses (nisḫu e-˹še˺?-rù) for Ner. 02:

4š Ninurta-uballiṭ [...] Iddiya, 2š Šamaš-balāssu-iqbi/Ninurta-ušēzib, xš Šumu-ukīn/Iddiya, 2š Sîn-aḫḫē-iddin, xš Ibnāya/Aḫu-šubši, 6š Nadnāya, xš Ninurta-aḫḫē-erība/Bānia, 3š Šamaš-iddin, xš Šamaš-zēru-ibni/Nāṣir, xš Kalbi-Ninurta the potter (paḫāru), 3½š, Šullum, xš Tālim/Aḫunāya, xš Bēl-uballiṭ/Nādin, xš rent (idu) for the house of Rībāt, […] the leather worker (aškāpu), xš rent of the house of Aḫu-lūmur, xš …ši/Sîn-ēreš, 3š Ninurta-uballiṭ, xš Šamaš-erība/Ban-ēreš, xš Šamaš-zēru-ibni/Enlil-šumu-ukīn, 5š Gimillu/x-aḫišu, 4š Ninurta-alik-pāni, 2š Šamaš-uballiṭ, 4š Kalbāya, 3š Ninurta-ēṭir-aḫušu, 3š Ardia/Enlil-šumu-iddin, 2š Zēria/Kurigalzu, 2š Šamaš-aḫu-iddin of the house …, 3š Rībāt/Taqīš, 3š Ninurta-nādin-šumi/Enlil-aḫḫē-iddin, 5š Aplāya/Enlil-aḫḫē-iddin, xš Širiktu who is in the walls (šá ina bàd), xš DN-šumu-iddin/Kuddarān?, 2š Arad-DN, xš x-Marduk, 6š Bēl-ibni/Šamaš-zēru-iqīša, + 1 more broken name.

 

The line endings are very irregular, many of which leave much space at the right side of the tablet. This, as well as the relatively deep wedge imprints and the rigid non-cursive handwriting, may be indicative of an unskilled scribe.

Most of the left edge of the tablet is broken. Thus, many of the PNs listed at the end of lines (to the right), may have had the name of the father listed at the head of the next line.


Further Information

created by
Yuval Levavi, March 4, 2026, 9:28 a.m.
last updated by
Yuval Levavi, May 18, 2026, 8:16 a.m.