Basic Metadata

NaBuCCo ID
6188
Museum No.
YBC 03555
Primary Publication
YOS 3 021
CDLI P-Identifier
P304986
Place of issue
No place
Places mentioned on Tablet
Uruk city
Archive
Eanna temple
Period
Early Achaemenid
Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
XXX. yy-mm-dd
Inferred date
Camb 2.IX = 18.11.-16.12.528 BCE

Digeanna

Van Driel Files
11 a
Text Form
Letter (e.g. ṭuppi PN ana PN)
Domain (Eanna)
Personnel management and labor allocation
Format of the tablet
landscape

Content

Paraphrase

Letter of Innin-aḫḫē-iddin (IAI) (chief of oblates, rab širki) to the High Priest (šatammu, Nabû-mukīn-apli/Nādin//Dābibī) and Nabû-aḫu-iddin (Royal Overseer, ša rēš šarri bēl piqitti), "his lords", about the imminent arrival of the king (kapdu). He requests replacements for men serving in outposts. For this, Nanaya-iddin and summoners should quickly be sent to him (nubattu lā bâtu). IAI requests a freeman (mār banî) with silver who should buy barley where IAI is to supply the men as the silver IAI received via Šumu-ukīn and Nidintu, 2 minas, have been used up in the last 4 months. IAI also urges (kapdu) the recipients to ship 500;0 of dates to him via Kalbāya.


Further Information

created by
Martina Schmidl, Nov. 14, 2025, 11:23 a.m.
last updated by
Martina Schmidl, May 26, 2026, 2:41 p.m.
Mentioned in the following publication(s)
Ebeling 1930-1934 (NBrU)
Kleber 2012
Schmidl 2019 (unpublished PhD diss.)
Tolini 2011 (PhD Diss.)