Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 8853
- Museum No.
- PTS 3279
- Primary Publication
- JCS 54 (2002), 99-123
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P471371
- Place of issue
- No place
- Regional setting
- Uruk region
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Neo-Babylonian
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Nbk. 04-mm-dd
- Inferred date
- 600-601
Digeanna
- Van Driel Files
- 2 b
- 4 b
- Text Form
- Protocol (...)
- Legal Purpose
- Journal (various, most often ina pāni, nadin, apil, eṭir, šūbulu)
- Transaction Type
- transactional (incoming)
- Domain (Eanna)
- Storehouse management and allocation of staples
- Format of the tablet
- landscape
- Sealings
- True
Content
- Paraphrase
Šamaš-zēru-iqīša/Marduk-šarrani, Governor (šākin ṭēmi) (of Uruk) has paid (eṭēru) a total of 10 minas of silver to Eanna. It is the price (šīmu) of 30 uncastrated oxen, that have been sold to Ea-dayyānu, Governor of the Sealand (šākin tâmti), for 20 shekels of silver each. (The payment is made in form of): 1000 measures of barley with a capacity of 0;1, (thus) a total of 200;0 for the price of 9 minas of silver (according to an exchange rate of) 0;2 (barley for 1 shekel of silver), (and) 1 mina of silver from Marduk-ēṭir/Bēl-šumu-iškun.
Written in the presence of Ninurta-šarru-uṣur, Royal Resident (qīpu).
3 witnesses.
The date formular is damaged. Restoration of the king’s name based on the incumbency of Ninurta-šarru-uṣur. Šamaš-zēru-iqīša/Marduk-šarrani//Gimil-Nanāya occurs in AnOr 8 2 as Governor of Uruk.
Stamp seal impression of the Royal Resident on the left edge (AUWE 18 194-98).
Further Information
- created by
- Julia Giessler, Sept. 25, 2026, 9:48 a.m.
- last updated by
- Julia Giessler, Sept. 25, 2026, 9:48 a.m.
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- JCS 54 (2002), 99-123