Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 6131
- Museum No.
- YBC 08922
- Primary Publication
- YOS 3 103
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P309721
- 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 related letter YOS 3 053 = YBC 07457)
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 Nabû-aḫu-iddin (NAI) (Royal Overseer, ša rēš šarri bēl piqitti), "his brother", asking why NAI gave allowances (kurummatu) and wool to chiefs of ten without Ubār (U) and Šadûnu (Š) (chiefs of fifty, rab hanšē) present. AŠU requests 200;0 barley as allowances (kurummatu) for work in the countryside (ša ṣēri) via U and Š. AŠU swears (lū īdû kī) by Šamaš that the creditors have taken all the barley that Ištar-zēru-iqīša had brought to him. He complains about work and pressure from the king (šarru ina muḫḫi) before urgently (kapdu) requesting that U and Š are sent to him (ḫarrānu ana šēpē šakānu) and that they leave on the 1st of m.VII.
Further Information
- created by
- Martina Schmidl, Oct. 31, 2025, 9:06 a.m.
- last updated by
- Martina Schmidl, May 26, 2026, 2:39 p.m.
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- Ebeling 1930-1934 (NBrU)
- Kleber 2008
- Schmidl 2019 (unpublished PhD diss.)
- Tolini 2011 (PhD Diss.)