Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 8670
- Museum No.
- NBC 04598
- Primary Publication
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P297617
- Place of issue
- No place
- Regional setting
- Uruk region
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Early Achaemenid
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Cyr. 05-00-00
- Inferred date
- 534-533
Digeanna
- Van Driel Files
- 5 a
- Text Form
- List (various verbs, or also no verb)
- Legal Purpose
- Personnel (ṣābū ša … vel sim.)
- Domain (Eanna)
- Personnel management and labor allocation
- Formatting
- True
- Formatting remarks
- horizontal rulings
- Format of the tablet
- portrait
Navico
- Oblate/Slave Descriptor
- collective designation
Content
- Paraphrase
List of oblates (širku) who will keep watch (maṣṣartu) in Eanna:
2 at the (tp)Gate of the cella of the Lady of Uruk (bāb papāḫi ša Bēlet Uruk): Gimillu/Nabû-aḫḫē-[...] and Dannu-aḫḫēšu-ibni/Ṭāb-[...] (or: Dannu-aḫḫēšū-ibni/Ḫi[...]);
2 at the (tp)Gate of the cella of [...]: Anu-balāssu-iqbi/Bēl-ušallim and Ipria/Anu-aḫu-[...];
2 at the (tp)Gate of the cella of [...]: Nabû-ittannu/[...] and Nidinti-Šamaš/[...];
4 at the (tp)Illūru Gate: Nabû-ittannu/Nabû-aḫḫē-[...], Anu-iqbi/Gimil[...] (or: Anu-iqbi/Šu[...), Itti-Eanna-būdia/[...] (or: Itti-Eanna-būdia from [...]), and [...]-iddin/[...];
4 at the (tp)Gate of ... (bāb ni-bu?): Balāṭu/Gimil[...] (or: Balāṭu/Šu[...]), Nergal-nāṣir/Gimil[...] (or: Nergal-nāṣir/Šu[...]), IGI.DU-aḫu-iddin, (and) Dannu-aḫḫēšu-ibni;
4 at the (tp)Gate of the lock (bāb sikkāti): Dannu-aḫḫēšu-ibni/[...], Šamaš-erība/Nanāya-[...], Nanāya-ēreš/[...], Ḫabaṣīru/[...];
2 coloured wool weavers under the management (ša qātē) of Innin-zēru-ušebši for the watch of the (tp)Illūru Gate: Kalbāya/Nabû-silim (and) Nidintu/Kinūnāya.
2 bleachers besides the divine Urmaḫlûlus at the (tp)Illūru Gate: Ardia/Šamaš-iddin and Nanāya-iddin/[...];
5 from Tērik-šarrūssu [...], 4(?) from(?) Eanna-[...]: [...]/Ina-ṣilli-[...].
The damaged date is given in the heading. Restoration of the name Innin-zēru-ušebši based on the composition of the weavers’ work team; see Payne 2007: 143.
Further Information
- created by
- Julia Giessler, Sept. 8, 2026, 9:54 a.m.
- last updated by
- Julia Giessler, Sept. 8, 2026, 10:06 a.m.