Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 7646
- Museum No.
- NCBT 00487
- Primary Publication
- Kleber 2008 18
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P302540
- Place of issue
- No place
- Regional setting
- Uruk region
- Places mentioned on Tablet
- Raqqat-Šamaš
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Neo-Babylonian
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Nbk. 32-IX-12
- Date BCE
- 15/12/573
Digeanna
- Van Driel Files
- 9 k
- Text Form
- Note (...)
- Legal Purpose
- Dispatch (šūbulu)
- Transaction Type
- transactional (outgoing)
- Domain (Eanna)
- Storehouse management and allocation of staples
- Formatting remarks
- After line 10 a line was erased, followed by a blank space of about 2 lines, then the text about the debt note and the date.
- Format of the tablet
- landscape
Navico
- Theme
- Labour tasks & work status
- Oblate/Slave Descriptor
- oblate
Content
- Paraphrase
200;0 of barley were sent (šu-bul, coll. M. Jursa, missing in copy) via (ina qāt) Gimillu/Zēria, scribe (responsible for) the work of (tp)Raqqat-Šamaš, to (broken PN) for the allowances (kurummatu) of the oblates (širku).
21;0 of barley (…) the allowances of (…) of 20 oblates that (do) the work in Raqqat-Šamaš.
3 nēsepu-containers of oil, 0;1 of (salt), 0;1.0.4 of cress (…).
250;0 of barley of the debt note (u’iltu) owed by (ina muḫḫi) Zēria and Ṣillāya the (…) he (or maybe they) will give (nadānu) to Ištar-ālik-pāni.
Note 1: Ištar-ālik-pāni is the chief of oblates (rab širki) responsible for the construction work in Raqqat-Šamaš (see Kleber 2008, p. 171).
Note 2: The name of the king is not recorded on the tablet. Because of the high year number it must be Nebuchadnezzar.
Further Information
- created by
- Dylan Schimek, April 13, 2026, 10:50 a.m.
- last updated by
- Dylan Schimek, Sept. 30, 2026, 9:30 a.m.