Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 6062
- Museum No.
- BM 117469
- Primary Publication
- NISABA 28 684
- Place of issue
- No place
- Regional setting
- Uruk region
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Early Achaemenid
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- XXX. 00-00-00
- Inferred date
- 6 Cyr-6 Camb, possibly 4 Camb = c. 533-523 BCE, possibly 533-526 BC (based on the prosopography of the letter parties)
Digeanna
- Van Driel Files
- 11 b
- Text Form
- Letter order (...)
- Transaction Type
- not applicable
- Second-order accounting
- True
- Domain (Eanna)
- Higher-order management and policies
- Formatting remarks
- The text is in landscape format and sealed, but not dated. The sealing is a partial impression of Nabû-mukīn-apli’s seal, which was identified by Ehrenberg (1999, no. 104). The seal was rolled out, the impression shows its left part.
- Format of the tablet
- landscape
- Sealings
- True
Content
- Paraphrase
Letter by Nabû-mukīn-apli (/Nādinu//Dābibī, High Priest of Eanna, šatammu) to Nādinu (N) (possibly /Bēl-aḫḫē-iqīša//Egibi, temple scribe, ṭupšarru ša Eanna), about the establishments (in the sense of administrative sections, bītu) of the chiefs of flocks (rab būli), asking him to bring the information about their number as recorded in the writing board (lē’u) with him.
Further Information
- created by
- Małgorzata Sandowicz, Oct. 27, 2025, 8:03 p.m.
- last updated by
- Martina Schmidl, May 22, 2026, 9:10 a.m.
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- Schmidl 2019 (unpublished PhD diss.)