Basic Metadata

NaBuCCo ID
7737
Museum No.
YBC 06929
Primary Publication
YOS 6 167
CDLI P-Identifier
P307943
Place of issue
Uruk city
Regional setting
Uruk region
Archive
Eanna temple
Period
Neo-Babylonian
Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
Nbn. [x]-VI-30
Inferred date
24.09.555 - 26.09.539

Digeanna

Van Driel Files
1 b
Text Form
Note (...)
Legal Purpose
Withdrawal (našû)
Transaction Type
transactional (incoming)
Domain (Eanna)
Agriculture
Format of the tablet
landscape

Navico

Theme
Slave/Oblate status
Oblate/Slave Role
Is dedicated (oblate) (passive)

Content

Paraphrase

Ištar-zēru-ušebši/Nanāya-karābī, Kalbāya/Nabû-rēmanni and Eanna-līpī-uṣur/Tarībi, who bring (qerēbu D) barley and dates for the Lady of Uruk from the steppe to the Eanna, said to Zēria/Ibnāya//Egibi, the High Priest (šatammu) of Eanna, and the scribes of Eanna that Ša-Nabû-išallim, the slave (qallu) of Nabû-šarru-uṣur, the royal courtier (rēš šarri), on behalf of (ina našparti) Nabû-šarru-uṣur, withdrew (našû) from them (litt. “from our hands”) 316;0 of barley as food allocations (kurummatu) of the oblates (širku) in Nbn 6.II.

Secondly (šanû bābu), Kalbāya/Nabû-rēmanni said to Zēria, the High Priest of Eanna, and the scribes of Eanna that Ša-Nabû-išallim, on behalf of Nabû-šarru-uṣur, withdrew from him (litt. “from my hands”) 136;0 of barley and dates as food allocations of the oblates.

Nidintu/Aḫḫēšu, who brings barley and dates from the steppe to the Eanna, said to Zēria, the High Priest of Eanna, the scribes of Eanna and the Royal Overseer (ša rēš šarri bēl piqitti) of Eanna that he embarked (elû Š) 120;0 of dates belonging to the Lady of Uruk from (tp)Marad to Eanna, and that Ša-Nabû-išallim withdrew them from him (litt. “from my hands”).

5 witnesses and the scribe Ištar-mukīn-apli/Zēria

 

Notes

The text belongs to the same dossier as YOS 6 159.


Further Information

created by
Sarah Grosser, April 22, 2026, 12:29 p.m.
last updated by
Sarah Grosser, April 22, 2026, 12:29 p.m.
Mentioned in the following publication(s)
YOS 6