Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 3565
- Museum No.
- YBC 03696
- Primary Publication
- YOS 7 120
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P305054
- Place of issue
- No place
- Regional setting
- Uruk region
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Early Achaemenid
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Cam. 01-VIII-10
- Date BCE
- 04/01/528
Digeanna
- Van Driel Files
- 11 b
- Text Form
- Letter order (...)
- Legal Purpose
- Issue (nadin)
- Transaction Type
- transactional (outgoing)
- Domain (Eanna)
- Storehouse management and allocation of staples
- Sealings
- True
Content
- Paraphrase
Nabû-aḫu-iddin (Royal Overseer, ša rēš šarri bēl piqitti) orders Bēl-eṭēri-Šamaš, "his brother", to give dates for allowances (kurummatu) of the runners (musaḫḫiru) of the Royal Resident (qīpu) and dates from the allowances of the laborers (ṣābu) working on the wall of Babylon to Innin-aḫḫē-iddin, chief of oblates (rab širki) and Urdimmu-ilūa/Šamaš-ibni.
Seal impression (AUWE 18 48) on the reverse.
- Legacy Paraphrase
Letter order from Nabû-aḫu-iddin to Bēl-eṭēri-Šamaš. The former orders the latter to supply [NN] kurru of dates to the escorts (musaḫḫiru) of the royal representative (qīpu) of the Eanna and [NN]+20 kurru of dates to the oblates working on the rampart of Babylon through their leader Innin-aḫḫē-iddin and Ea-ilu’a. Sealed.
Further Information
- Type and Content
- Letter orders
- last updated by
- Martina Schmidl, May 26, 2026, 3:03 p.m.