Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 6201
- Museum No.
- NCBT 00057
- Primary Publication
- YOS 21 071
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P302110
- Place of issue
- No place
- Places mentioned on Tablet
- Angillu
- Uruk city
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Early Achaemenid
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- XXX. yy-mm-dd
- Inferred date
- Likely end of Camb 3.VIb onwards = 09.527 BCE onwards (based on the letters connection to YOS 3 069)
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 Nabû-aḫu-iddin (NAI) (Royal Overseer, ša rēš šarri bēl piqitti) to the High Priest (šatammu, likely Nabû-mukīn-apli/Nādinu//Dābibī), "his brother", about the High Priest’s concerns about silver and wool. NAI possibly offers to trade places with the High Priest. NAI asks the recipient to mobilize plowmen alongside the Royal Canal and of (tp)Angillu for work and for digging canals. NAI also reminds the High Priest that plowmen entrusted to Guzānu (G) are not doing their work because G himself is strolling around in Uruk. Their work is supposed to make up for their outstanding obligations (rēḫu) at the temple.
Further Information
- Type and Content
- Letters
- created by
- Martina Schmidl, Nov. 14, 2025, 5:56 p.m.
- last updated by
- Martina Schmidl, May 27, 2026, 8:59 a.m.
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- Schmidl 2019 (unpublished PhD diss.)