Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 6125
- Museum No.
- AO 10324
- Primary Publication
- TCL 9 121
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P386791
- Place of issue
- No place
- Regional setting
- No place
- Places mentioned on Tablet
- Lahīru
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Early Achaemenid
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- XXX. yy-mm-dd
- Inferred date
- 1-5 Cyr = 538-533 BCE (based on the prosopography of the letter parties)
Digeanna
- Van Driel Files
- 11 a
- Text Form
- Letter (e.g. ṭuppi PN ana PN)
- Domain (Eanna)
- Higher-order management and policies
- Format of the tablet
- portrait
Content
- Paraphrase
Letter of Anu-šarru-uṣur (AŠU) (Royal Resident, qīpu) to Nidinti-Bēl (/Nabû-mukīn-zēri/Dābibī) (High Priest, šatammu) and Nabû-aḫu-iddin (Royal Overseer, ša rēš šarri bēl piqitti), "his brothers", complaining about his workload in, among others, (tp)Laḫīru. AŠU has to deliver 1000 beams (gušūru) for three different projects: a flour grinder’s shop (bīt qēmēti), a storehouse (bīt qātē) and work in (tp)Laḫīru. AŠU requests 5 minas of silver and beams and gives concrete instructions on how to proceed with the beams – where they should be handed over to his messenger and that they should be transported by ship. He also specifies that he is the only one allowed to sell the beams, and that he sells them for inspected silver (amāru). AŠU invokes the king to underline his authority (ana šarri ina libbāti qabû). He expresses urgency (kapdu, nubattu lā bâtu) and requests a report from the letter recipients (ṭēmu lū šemû).
Further Information
- created by
- Martina Schmidl, Oct. 30, 2025, 4:22 p.m.
- last updated by
- Martina Schmidl, May 26, 2026, 2:37 p.m.
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- Ebeling 1930-1934 (NBrU)
- IrAn 27 (1992), 117-123
- Joannès 2005
- Joannès 2008
- Kleber 2008
- Schmidl 2019 (unpublished PhD diss.)
- Tolini 2011 (PhD Diss.)