Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 6117
- Museum No.
- BM 117724
- Primary Publication
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P602515
- Place of issue
- No place
- Regional setting
- Uruk region
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Neo-Babylonian
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- XXX. 00-00-00
- Inferred date
- Nbn 12-Cyr 1 = c. 544-535 BCE (based on prosopography and the time of Kalbaya as rent farmer)
Digeanna
- Van Driel Files
- 11 a
- Text Form
- Letter (e.g. ṭuppi PN ana PN)
- Transaction Type
- not applicable
- Domain (Eanna)
- Higher-order management and policies
- Format of the tablet
- portrait
Content
- Paraphrase
Letter of Kalbaya (possibly /Iqīša//Basia, rent farmer, ša muḫḫi sūti) to Nādinu (/Bēl-aḫḫē-Iqīša//Egibi), and Kīnaya (= Ištar-mukīn-apli/Zēria) (both temple scribes, ṭupšarru ša Eanna), “his brothers”, complaining about his high workload and requesting two freeman (mār banî) to finish the work (on their stretch of canal) with slaves (lamutānu) and worrying about a man who will complain about the missing canal outlet and tell them that they should dig the canal with him.
- Legacy Paraphrase
Kalbāya writes to “his brothers” Nādinu and Kināya (scribes of Eanna in years Nbn. 12–Cyr. 04), invoking the Lady of Uruk and Nanāya in his blessing. He complains that the work for the Lady of Uruk is hard and requests that 2 freemen (mār banî) be selected (amāru) to finish the work with slaves (lamutu). The work above and below (e-lu-nu-ú u šupalû) is now finished, but a visitor from Akkad will come and … (ṭarādu) that there is no outlet (ṣītu), requesting that the canal […].
Further Information
- created by
- Małgorzata Sandowicz, Oct. 29, 2025, 7:04 p.m.
- last updated by
- Martina Schmidl, June 3, 2026, 2:41 p.m.