Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 6130
- Museum No.
- YBC 07457
- Primary Publication
- YOS 3 053
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P308401
- Place of issue
- No place
- Regional setting
- Unknown place
- Places mentioned on Tablet
- No place
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Early Achaemenid
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- XXX. yy-mm-dd
- Inferred date
- 1-4 Cyr = 538-534 BCE (based on the prosopography of the letter recipients)
Digeanna
- Van Driel Files
- 11 a
- Text Form
- Letter (e.g. ṭuppi PN ana PN)
- Domain (Eanna)
- Storehouse management and allocation of staples
- Formatting remarks
- The obverse shows rather vigorously impressed wedges. Both obverse and reverse present some writing over erasures. At the end of the tablet on the reverse, three lines are erased.
- Format of the tablet
- portrait
Content
- Paraphrase
Letter of Anu-šarru-uṣur (AŠU) (Royal Resident) to to Nādin (/Bēl-aḫḫē-Iqīša//Egibi), Kīnāya (= Ištar-mukīn-apli/Zēria) and Mūrānu (/Nabû-bān-aḫi//Ekur-zākir) (temple scribes, ṭupšarru ša Eanna), "his brothers", requesting 200;0 barley from the recipients because creditors collected his previous delivery of barley by Ištar-zēru-iqīša (IZI) in its entirety, a fact which he stresses. The barley should quickly (kapdu) be delivered in 2 portions by 3 different people, 200;0 via Ubār and Šadûnu (chiefs of fifty, rab hanšē) and 500;0 via IZI. He stresses the urgency of taking action (kapdu, ḫarrānu ana šēpē šakānu), and that the chiefs should come to him on the 1st of m.VII for work.
Further Information
- Type and Content
- Letters
- created by
- Martina Schmidl, Oct. 31, 2025, 8:07 a.m.
- last updated by
- Martina Schmidl, May 26, 2026, 2:38 p.m.
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- Ebeling 1930-1934 (NBrU)
- Schmidl 2019 (unpublished PhD diss.)
- Tolini 2011 (PhD Diss.)