Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 7796
- Museum No.
- CST 524
- Primary Publication
- Isimu 20-21 C.5.1
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P462729
- Regional setting
- Uruk region
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Neo-Babylonian
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Nbn. 3-mm-7
- Date BCE
- 553
Digeanna
- Van Driel Files
- 5 a
- Text Form
- List (various verbs, or also no verb)
- Legal Purpose
- Issue (nadin)
- Transaction Type
- transactional (outgoing)
- Domain (Eanna)
- Storehouse management and allocation of staples
- Format of the tablet
- portrait
Content
- Paraphrase
List of ration(?) payments of 0;0.0.1 (1 litre) each to two groups of craftsmen: jewellers (kabsarru, under the headman Marduk-šumu-līšir), and goldsmiths (kutimmu, probably under the headman Šamaš-iddin). The name of the king (“year 3”) in the date is lost, but based on prosopographical data can be restored as Nabonidus. Legible names of the kabsarru group: Marduk-šumu-līšir (the headman of this group), Innin-aḫḫē-iddin, Ina-tēšî-ēṭer, Šarīdu, Arad-Gula, Šadûnu, Ilu-aḫḫē-iddin, Pir’u, Arad-Amurru, Balāṭu, Nūr-Sîn (partly restored), the sons of Bēl-[…], the sons of Arad-Innin. Goldsmiths: Nergal-aḫu-uṣur, Nabû-aḫu-iddin, Iddin-Marduk, Šamaš-iddin, Ištar-zēru-ibni, Šulāya, Balāṭu, Lâbâši/Ištar-šumu-ibni, Šamaš-iddin/Kiribtu.
Zadok, Isimu 20-21, 5.1
The king's name in the date formula is not preserved, but can be restored as that of Nabonidus owing to prosopographical data.
Further Information
- created by
- Michael Jursa, May 1, 2026, 8:32 p.m.
- last updated by
- Michael Jursa, May 1, 2026, 8:37 p.m.