Basic Metadata

NaBuCCo ID
7643
Museum No.
NCBT 00686
Primary Publication
Kleber 2008 15
CDLI P-Identifier
P302739
Place of issue
No place
Regional setting
Uruk region
Places mentioned on Tablet
Babylon city
Upiya
Archive
Eanna temple
Period
Neo-Babylonian
Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
Nbk. 32-VIII-07
Inferred date
11.11.573 or after; The tablet is a Sammeltafel of different smaller transactions that took place over a longer period of time. The individual entries are sometimes dated (given in the paraphrase), the tablet itself is not.

Digeanna

Van Driel Files
5 c
Text Form
Sammeltafel (...)
Legal Purpose
Journal (various, most often ina pāni, nadin, apil, eṭir, šūbulu)
Transaction Type
transactional (outgoing)
Second-order accounting
True
Domain (Eanna)
Higher-order management and policies
Format of the tablet
landscape

Navico

Theme
Labour tasks & work status
Mobility
Oblate/Slave Descriptor
oblate

Content

Paraphrase

A write-up of multiple smaller expenses for people that were sent to the Temple Scribe (ṭupšar bīti). Most entries are dated and span over several years. The entries are not given in chronological order. 

  • Nabû-zēru-līšir/Nabû-aḫḫē-šullim, Ištar-bēlu-uṣur/Aplāya, Amīl-Nanaya/Kudurru, who were sent to the temple scribe, withdrew (našû) 1;2.3 of barley, their allowances (kurummatu) for m.XI – (Nbk.)27.IV.22

  • 0;2.3 of barley: Ištar-dūr-ēdi, who brought offering baskets (sellu tabnītu) to the temple scribe – (Nbk.)31.X.23

  • 1;0: Bānia/Aplāya and Ša-Nabû-šū, who were sent to the temple scribe – (Nbk.)31.X.23 

  • Nanaya-uṣalli, a dependant of Marduk-šumu-ēreš, Aḫu-ittabši the baker, Amīl-Nanaya, a dependant of Šamaš-šumu-iddin, Nabû-na’id, a dependant of Nergal-iddin, and Ṭāb-šār-Esagil, the baker, that were sent to the temple scribe by boat, withdrew 2;2.4, their allowances for m.VIII – (Nbk.)32.VIII.07

  • Ištar-taklāku and 1 oblate (širku), who brought offering baskets (sellu tabnītu) to the temple scribe in (tp)Upiya, withdrew 1 ¼ shekels of silver for their travel provisions (ṣidītu) (– no date given)

  • Nabû-bān-aḫi/Aplāya, Nanaya-aḫu-iddin/Iddināya, Iddināya, son of a novice oblate (zakītu) and 5 oblates (širku), who were sent to the temple scribe, withdrew 2;0 of barley, their allowances for m.V – (Nbk.)32.V.29

  • Ištar-zēru-ibni/Tattanu and Ibni-Ištar/Šamaš-zēru-ibni, who were sent to the temple scribe, withdrew 1;0.5 of dates, their allowances for m.VII – (Nbk.)19.VII.11

  • 0;2.3: Nabû-aḫḫē-šullim/Amīl-Nanaya, (who) was sent to the temple scribe in Opis – VIII.28 (no year given)

  • 2;0 of barley were issued (nadānu) to 5 workers (ṣābu), who went to Babylon under the instructions of the temple scribe – (Nbk.)32.V.02

  • 10 shekels of silver: for the allowances of m.I of 10 ‘third men’ (tašlīšu) of the temple scribe – XII.18 (no year given)

Note: GCCI 1 179 is one of the smaller tablets that were collected on this list. It corresponds with the second entry.


Further Information

created by
Dylan Schimek, April 13, 2026, 10:35 a.m.
last updated by
Dylan Schimek, Sept. 30, 2026, 9:21 a.m.