Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 3900
- Museum No.
- YBC 03488
- Primary Publication
- YOS 3 056
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P304924
- Place of issue
- No place
- Regional setting
- Larsa
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Early Achaemenid
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- XXX. yy-mm-dd
- Inferred date
- Nbn 12-Cyr 9 = 544-530 BCE (based on prosopography)
Digeanna
- Van Driel Files
- 11 a
- Text Form
- Letter (e.g. ṭuppi PN ana PN)
- Domain (Eanna)
- Higher-order management and policies
- Formatting remarks
- About half of the reverse is inscribed.
- Format of the tablet
- portrait
Content
- Paraphrase
Letter of Nādin-aḫi (Royal Supervisor of the Ebabbar of Larsa, qīpu) to Nādinu (/Bēl-aḫḫē-iqīša//Egibi) (temple scribe, ṭupšarru ša Eanna), “his brother”, requesting cattle for the regular offering of Šamaš for m.VIII and m.XII and stating that there is an annual delivery of cattle from the Eanna to the Ebabbar of Larsa in m.VII. He also requests 20-30 sheep for the regular offering of Šamaš.
- Legacy Paraphrase
Letter. Undated.
The Ebabbar temple of Larsa asks livestock (for offerings) from the Eanna in Uruk.
Letter of A, known as the royal resident (qīpu) of Larsa, to B, his brother (+ blessing, invoking Šamaš and Aya). A asks B to send him oxen (alpu) and sheep (ṣēnu) for the regular offerings (ginû) of Šamaš.
A= Nādin-ahi, most probably royal resident (qīpu) of Larsa; Kozuh (2014, 272f.) reads Zēru-uṣur, but see Levavi review Kozuh 2014 (AfO); B= Nādin
Further Information
- Type and Content
- Correspondence
- last updated by
- Martina Schmidl, June 2, 2026, 3:43 p.m.
- Imported (Person, Date)
- Yuval Levavi, Kathleen Abraham (10/09/2023)
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- Ebeling 1930-1934 (NBrU)
- Kozuh 2014
- Or 60 (1991), 58-81
- Schmidl 2019 (unpublished PhD diss.)
- YOS 3