Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 6122
- Museum No.
- YBC 07458
- Primary Publication
- YOS 3 052
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P308402
- Place of issue
- No place
- Regional setting
- No place
- Places mentioned on Tablet
- No place
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Early Achaemenid
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- XXX. yy-mm-dd
- Inferred date
- c. Camb 2-3=528-526 BCE (based on the prosopography of the letter parties, connections in topic and personal to letters sent by a chief of oblates and a likely connection to a famine at the beginning of Cambyses’ reign)
Digeanna
- Van Driel Files
- 11 a
- Text Form
- Letter (e.g. ṭuppi PN ana PN)
- Domain (Eanna)
- Storehouse management and allocation of staples
- Format of the tablet
- portrait
Content
- Paraphrase
Letter of Anu-šarru-uṣur (Royal Resident, qīpu) to the High Priest (šatammu, Nabû-mukīn-apli/Nādinu//Dābibī) and Nabû-aḫu-iddin (Royal Overseer, ša rēš šarri bēl piqitti), "his brothers", vehemently demanding barley for salaries for his workers as they have none (indattu šakānu), including specific instructions about how Nidintu (chief of fifty, rab ḫanšē) should bring the barley to him. He emphasizes the pressure on his workers because of the lack of salaries (samû). The deliveries should be done quickly (kapdu, ḫarrānu ana šēpē šakānu).
Further Information
- created by
- Martina Schmidl, Oct. 30, 2025, 2:51 p.m.
- last updated by
- Martina Schmidl, May 26, 2026, 2:35 p.m.
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- Ebeling 1930-1934 (NBrU)
- Schmidl 2019 (unpublished PhD diss.)
- Tolini 2011 (PhD Diss.)