Basic Metadata

NaBuCCo ID
7709
Museum No.
AO 07143
Primary Publication
TCL 13 227
CDLI P-Identifier
P387292
Place of issue
No place
Regional setting
Uruk region
Archive
Eanna temple
Period
Neo-Babylonian
Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
Nbn. 7-mm-dd
Date BCE
549

Digeanna

Van Driel Files
9 b
Text Form
List (various verbs, or also no verb)
Legal Purpose
Administrative receipt ((ina qātē) maḫir; eṭir; also 'no verb')
Transaction Type
multiple transactions
Domain (Eanna)
Agriculture
Formatting
True
Format of the tablet
portrait

Content

Paraphrase

A list about barley, emmer, dates and sesame as fixed rent (sūtu) for Eanna from Nbn 3-7: from the rent farms of Šumu-ukīn (Šu) and Kalbāya (K), from the sharecroppers (errēšu), the tithe farmers (ša muḫḫi ešri), the prebendary gardeners (rab banî), the income (erbu) from the gate.

Nbn 3: from Nabû-balāṭ-šarri-iqbi, a mašennu official; from Šu and K;

Nbn 4: from Šu and K; from the sharecroppers; from the tithe of Nabû-ušabši (Nu), Innin-nādin-aḫi (Ina) and Ṣillāya, tithe farmers; for the brewer's and baker's prebends; from the income of the gate; from Šu's rent farm measured by Ṣillāya/Amīl-Nanāya, and a part measured by Nanāya-aḫu-iddin/Nergal-uballiṭ and Nidintu/Aḫḫēšu in Marad.

The arrears (rēḫit erbi u sūti) for Nbn 3 and 4 are 22827;0 kor of barley, 25226;0.5 kor of dates, 2098;0.1.3 kor of emmer, 290;1.4 kor of sesame, 2350;0 kor of cress.

Nbn 5: a total of 11880;3.2 kor of barley, 10900;4.3 kor of dates, 943;0 kor of emmer; 93;0 kor of sesame: from the fixed rent of Šu and K; from the sharecroppers; from Ina; from Nu; from Anu-zēru-iqīša/Ṣillāya; from the income of the gate; from the prebendary gardeners; for the brewer's, baker's, and measurer's prebend; Amurru-zēru-iddin brought barley for a debt (u'iltu) that Šu had taken on in Nbn 3. Ištar-zēru-ibni and Nanāya-iddin brought dates from the Tigris

Nbn 6: a total of 20653;0 kor of barley, 11723;2.3 kor of dates, 581;0 kor of emmer, 17;1.4 kor of sesame: from the fixed rent of Šu and K; from Nu; from Ina; from the income of the gate; from the prebendary gardeners; barley in lieu of silver as payment for bricks; for the baker's, brewer's and royal measurer's prebend.

Nbn 7: a total of 18344;0 kor of barley, 88;0 kor of dates, 1213;0 kor of emmer, 269;3.2 kor of sesame: from the fixed rent of Šu and K; from Nu; from Ina; for the baker's, brewer's and royal measurer's prebend; from the arrears of K's land; from the income of the gate; 

 

 


Further Information

created by
Matthias Adelhofer, April 20, 2026, 1:03 p.m.
last updated by
Matthias Adelhofer, April 22, 2026, 2:36 p.m.
Mentioned in the following publication(s)
Janković 2013 (unpubl. PhD diss.)
Moore, NBBAD (1935)