Basic Metadata

NaBuCCo ID
8852
Museum No.
YBC 04028
Primary Publication
JCS 54 (2002), 99-123
CDLI P-Identifier
P305340
Place of issue
No place
Regional setting
Uruk region
Archive
Eanna temple
Period
Neo-Babylonian
Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
Npl. 13-III-13
Date BCE
13/06/613

Digeanna

Van Driel Files
9 b
9 j
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)
Second-order accounting
True
Domain (Eanna)
Storehouse management and allocation of staples
Formatting remarks
horizontal ruling after the heading, blank lines between sections
Format of the tablet
portrait

Content

Paraphrase

List of an account (manû) of barley, which (was acquired) from the wool and the tithe (ešrû) of Ea-dayyānu, Governor of the (tp)Sealand (māt tâmti), (and) which was put at the disposal (ina pāni) of Nabû-šumu-ibni (NŠI.1), Ina-tēšî-nāsiḫ (ITN), Nabû-šumu-iddin (NŠI.2) and other men:

11673 measures based on (ina) an exchange rate (lit.: price, šīmu) of 100(?) talents of wool for 1;2.3. (barley) (and) 2123 measures of barley for the tithe; in total 13796 measures with a capacity of 0;1, thus 2759;1 barley, without (ša lā) the measures ... (pu-ú-tu) of [...], at the disposal of NŠI.1, ITN, and NŠI.2.

540(?) measures (delivered?) by Marduk-ēṭir via (ina qātē) [...] on the 11th day of m.V; 800 measures on the [...] day of m.V from (or: at the disposal of) Marduk-nāṣir [...]; 220 measures from (or: at the disposal of) Šulāya (Š) on the [...] day of m.[...].

(Aquisitions) from (or: at the disposal of) Nabû-udammiq (NU) on several days between the beginning(?) of m.VI until the 15th day m.VII: 1235 measures, 492 measures, 2000 measures, 500 measures, 87 measures, 182 (measures), 470 (measures), 790 (measures), 1200 (measures), 660 (measures). On some of these days, the accountant (lit.: I) did not get (lit.: see) a receipt (lit.: document, šaṭāru) from NU. (Further aquisitions): 240 (measures) from (or: at the disposal of) Šumu-ukīn, on the 25th day of m.X; 90 measures from (or: at the disposal of) Š, 4th day of m.XI; in total: 9577 measures of barley (the equivalent) of 1915;2 delivered (maḫāru)  together with 1160 measures by NŠI.1 and ITN, from whom the accountant did not get a receipt. 577 measures, which are missing (matû) in accordance with wages (idū) [...], remainder (rēḫu) of 2000 measures received (and) put at the disposal of plowmen (ikkaru) including their wages (idū).

2000 measures at the disposal of Nadnāya without 600(?) ... (pu-ut-tu) measures and without (the amount) that he has withdrawn (našû) from Eanna. Grand total: 4000 measures at the disposal of NŠI.1 and ITN

The tablet has a hole on the lower left edge. The date is given in the heading.


Further Information

created by
Julia Giessler, Sept. 25, 2026, 8:57 a.m.
last updated by
Julia Giessler, Sept. 25, 2026, 8:57 a.m.
Mentioned in the following publication(s)
JCS 54 (2002), 99-123