Basic Metadata

NaBuCCo ID
8464
Museum No.
YBC 04168
Primary Publication
YOS 6 229
CDLI P-Identifier
P305480
Place of issue
No place
Regional setting
Uruk region
Archive
Eanna temple
Period
Neo-Babylonian
Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
Nbn. 11-X-28
Date BCE
27/01/544

Digeanna

Van Driel Files
5 c
Text Form
List (various verbs, or also no verb)
Legal Purpose
Withdrawal (našû)
Transaction Type
transactional (outgoing)
Domain (Eanna)
Personnel management and labor allocation
Format of the tablet
portrait

Content

Paraphrase

Long list of food allocations in dates for the oblates of the city, dated to Nbn.11.X.28:

[3?]+6;0 to the runners (musaḫḫiru) of the High Priest (šatammu): Arad-Anu (withdrew)

2;0 from the food allocation of the workers of the house of oxen (bīt alpī): Ištar-zēru-ušebši (withdrew)

1;0: Nanāya-iddin, the launderer (pūṣāya), including 0;1.3 of Nūrea, were withdrawn.

45;2.1 to Šamaš-aḫu-iddin (rest of the list broken)

18;0 from the food allocation of the carrier of barley and dates: Eanna-ibni, the chief of ten (withdrew)

12;0 from the food allocation of the carriers of barley and dates: Ištar-šumu-ēreš, the chief of ten (withdrew)

5;0 from the food allocation of the bronze smith: Bazuzu (withdrew)

2;0 to Aqarru and Nanāya-iddin, the corvée worker (urāšu) of Larsa

7;3.4.3 to the offering shepherds (rē’i ša immer ginê):  Šūzubu(/Kudurru) (withdrew)

0;3.4.3 to Innin-iddin, the guard of the warehouse (maṣṣarat bīt makkūri)

2;0 to Libluṭ and Nanāya-iddin, the runners: Nabû-šarru-uṣur (withdrew)

2;0 to Nabû-ušallim, the food allocation of the king: Nūrea (withdrew)

11;0 to the runners of the Royal Resident (qīpu): Ibni-Ištar (withdrew)

5;1.1.3 to Šamaš-šumu-ukīn, the launderer 

4;0 to Ištar-šarru-uṣur, the delivery man (mušallimānu)

6;2(?).3 the food allocation of the carrier of barley: Šamaš-erība, the donkey driver (rēdû imēri) (withdrew)

1;0 of Nabû-aḫḫē-šullim, the reed cutter (ḫāṣib qanê)

1;0 of Na’id-Ištar/Nadnāya, who was delegated (našpartu)

0;2.3 of Zēria/Nanāya-iddin, the gatekeeper (atû)

5;3.4.3 the food allocation of the jewelers: Marduk-šumu-līšir

14;2.3 for the goldsmiths: Šamaš-iddin

5;0 for the workers who dragged (šadādu) the boat of the kusītu-garment (eleppi ša kusīti): Šamaš-aḫḫē-iddin (withdrew)

1;2.3 of Nanāya-iddin, the master builder (arad ekalli)

0;2.3 of Šamaš-ēreš, the master builder

0;1.1.3 of Ana-bītišu, the master builder

0;3.4.3 of Ilī-dannu-aḫḫēšu-ibni, the leatherworker

1;0 of Ištar-dūr-ēdi, the runner: Erībšu (withdrew)

0;1.3 of Innin-zēru-iqīša, the bronzesmith: Erībšu (withdrew)

2;0.1 the wage (idū) of Šumu-ukīn(/Nanāya-ēreš), the bronzesmith

1;0 to Ištar-bēl-uṣur, the leatherworker

1;0 to Gimillu, the carpenter (Glossenkeil between the two entries) 1;0 to Nabû-zēru-līšir, the carpenter

0;3.4.3 to Arad-Gula, the gatekeeper

0,3.4.3 of Innin-zēru-ibni, the gatekeeper

[2];0 for the workers who were sent for the salt

3;0 of Nanāya-aḫu-iddin, the master builder: Ša-Nabû-išallim (withdrew)

2;0 of Nanāya-aḫu-iddin/Nergal-nāṣir, who was delegated (našpartu)

6;0 from the food allocation of the horse-trainers: Iqīšāya (withdrew)

3;0 for beer: Madānu-ēreš (withdrew)

2;0 of Ṣillāya and Innin-šumu-uṣur, the Keeper of the Box (ša muḫḫi quppi) 

2;0 of Ḫaḫḫūru, the food allocation of the king

1;0 of Mār-Esagil-rēṣûa (and) Nabû-iqīša

1;0 of Ilī-dannu-aḫḫēšu-ibni/Šamaš-šumu-ukīn, the bleacher

2;0 for the workers of (tp)Raqqat-Šamaš: Nabû-udammiq (withdrew)

1;0 of Nādin-aḫi, the coloured wool weaver

1;0 of Lū-idia from the storehouse (bīt qātē)

1;0 of Anu-rēṣûa from the storehouse

1;0 of Ištar-rēṣûa, the bird fattener (mušākil iṣṣūri) 

2;0 of Arad-Innin and Ibni-Ištar, the gatekeepers

2;0 of Amīl-Nabû and Šellebu, the lock masters (rab sikkati)

1;1.1.3 of Ištar-zēru-ušebši, the bronzesmith

0;1.3 of Innin-aḫḫē-iddin, the gatekeeper of the craftsmen’s workshop (bīt ummânī)

l.56 broken

0;3.3 of Ṭābatu-Ištar, the gatekeeper

In total: 1[00+x+]7;1.2.3 for the food allocations of the oblates of the city.

Notes

For the offering shepherd Šūzubu and his attestations in the Eanna documentation, see Aarslev 2023, 276–277.

Many of the craftsmen listed here are also attested in other documents see Payne 2007 for further information. 

l.26: on the boat of the kusītu-garment (eleppi ša kusīti) see Joannès 2020, 35-36 and Kleber 2008, 297-301.


Further Information

created by
Sarah Grosser, July 16, 2026, 3:11 p.m.
last updated by
Sarah Grosser, July 16, 2026, 3:11 p.m.
Mentioned in the following publication(s)
YOS 6