Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 8402
- Museum No.
- CST 490
- Primary Publication
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P462695
- Place of issue
- No place
- Regional setting
- Uruk region
- Places mentioned on Tablet
- Udannu
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Early Achaemenid
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- XXX. 00-00-00
Digeanna
- Van Driel Files
- 5 b
- 9 f
- 9 j
- 10 f
- Text Form
- List (various verbs, or also no verb)
- Legal Purpose
- Journal (various, most often ina pāni, nadin, apil, eṭir, šūbulu)
- Transaction Type
- transactional (janus)
- Domain (Eanna)
- Storehouse management and allocation of staples
- Format of the tablet
- portrait
Content
- Paraphrase
Receipt and issue of various goods.
The first section lists the operations on the 16th day of m.III.
Barley: 1;0 as a gift (lit. income, erbu) of Nanāya-iddin; 2;0.2 as allowances (kurummatu) for gatekeepers (atû) of the granary (bīt karê); 0;0.5 as allowances for Šamaš-aḫḫē-iddin from (ša) the storehouse (bīt qātē); 0;0.2 as fodder for the donkeys from the warehouse (? makkūru), which were sent to (tp)Udannu for (ana muḫḫi) Dilmun dates.
Butter, not burnt (ḫimētu lā qullītu): 0;0.5 – Iddināya; 0;0.1.3 – Gimillu/Ḫaḫḫūru and Nabû-aḫ[…].
Sheep: 11, purchased for ½ mina silver (the price of […]), which Anu-aḫu-iddin, chief of runners (rab musaḫḫirē), received from […]; 1, for (the exchange rate of) 4.5 shekels for 2, purchased from Bēl-[…], … for/in the fattening shed (urê).
Young birds (līdānu): 10, purchased from Sūqāya […].
The second section lists the operations on the 17th day of m.III.
Sheep and goats: 50 kalūmu-lambs and 1 she-goat, which Balāṭu, offering shepherd (rē’i ginê) […].
Dates: 60;1.1 from Nabû-ṣullê-šeme […].
The third section has no (preserved) date.
Silver: 1 ¼ shekel, for […] of the donkeys that […].
Dates: 0;0.2 – […], Šaddinnu/Kalbāya.
Sheep: 96, for […] from 25th day until […], purchased with the silver for […].
On the mostly uninscribed obverse, there are 3 notes(?). The first one is illegible. In the second, days 27th(?) and 28th(?) of m.III are mentioned. The third is concerned with the Dilmun dates for the regular offerings, cut in m.VII by Bēl-iddin and […] by Nidintu/Ibni-Ištar.
Dating in the Achaemenid period is based on prosopography.
Further Information
- created by
- Małgorzata Sandowicz, July 11, 2026, 6:29 p.m.
- last updated by
- Małgorzata Sandowicz, July 11, 2026, 6:29 p.m.
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- Studia Mesopotamica 5 (2021), 241-369