Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 6123
- Museum No.
- -
- Primary Publication
- JAOS 36 (1917), 333-336
- 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
- Camb 1-4 = 529-525 BCE (end of one of these years based on connections to YOS 3 052, YOS 3 011 and TCL 9, 111)
Digeanna
- Van Driel Files
- 11 a
- Text Form
- Letter (e.g. ṭuppi PN ana PN)
- Domain (Eanna)
- Personnel management and labor allocation
Content
- Paraphrase
Letter of Anu-šarru-uṣur (AŠU) (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", about his high expenses (ina nisḫi ṭebû). He requests barley and dates for his starving workers to be delivered by ship through 1 slave (ardu). He also requests silver. Despite the already bad supply situation, AŠU demands that the senders return workers to his project who were diverted to chiefs of fifty (rab ḫanšē), and orders that a debt note be written about this. He informs the recipients that the chiefs of fifty will leave for work soon.
Further Information
- created by
- Martina Schmidl, Oct. 30, 2025, 3:17 p.m.
- last updated by
- Martina Schmidl, May 26, 2026, 2:36 p.m.
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- Hackl 2007
- Schmidl 2019 (unpublished PhD diss.)
- Streck 1995
- ZA 102/2 (2012), 219-244