Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 6135
- Museum No.
- YBC 03577
- Primary Publication
- YOS 3 178
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P305008
- Place of issue
- No place
- Regional setting
- Unknown place
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Early Achaemenid
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- XXX. yy-mm-dd
- Inferred date
- 1 Camb = 529 BCE (based on the letter’s connection to the dated letter order YOS 7 120)
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 text is written in landscape format and sealed, but its content is not reminiscent of a letter order. The sealing is similar in motive to, but not identical with, AUWE 18, no. 48. The obverse shows a textile expression on the lower right corner.
- Format of the tablet
- landscape
- Sealings
- True
Content
- Paraphrase
Letter of Innin-aḫḫē-iddin (IAI) (chief of oblates, rab širki) to Bēl-eṭēri-Šamaš (/Sîn-ēreš) and Gimil-Šamaš (/Bēl-ēṭir), "his brothers", about irrigation work (šāqûtu) and 44;0 dates belonging to IAI and the runners (musaḫḫiru) of the Royal Resident that the recipients recorded without IAI. IAI requests good-quality dates and donkeys, as well as that Erīb-šu and Ilu-dannu-aḫḫē(šu)-ibni be sent on their way.
Further Information
- created by
- Martina Schmidl, Oct. 31, 2025, 10:53 a.m.
- last updated by
- Martina Schmidl, May 26, 2026, 2:40 p.m.
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- Ebeling 1930-1934 (NBrU)
- Schmidl 2019 (unpublished PhD diss.)