Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 6207
- Museum No.
- YBC 03570
- Primary Publication
- YOS 3 107
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P305001
- Place of issue
- No place
- Places mentioned on Tablet
- Bīt-Nabû
- Kapru
- Maškan-il
- Tamertu-ša-imēri
- Til-hurāṣi
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Early Achaemenid
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- XXX. yy-mm-dd
- Inferred date
- Likely Camb 0a or 1 = c. 530-529 BCE (based on prosopography)
Digeanna
- Van Driel Files
- 11 a
- Text Form
- Letter (e.g. ṭuppi PN ana PN)
- Domain (Eanna)
- Agriculture
- Formatting remarks
- The writing on the reverse compresses towards the end of the tablet.
- Format of the tablet
- portrait
Content
- Paraphrase
Letter of Nabû-aḫu-iddin (NAI) (Royal Overseer, ša rēš šarri bēl piqitti) to the High Priest (šatammu, Nabû-mukīn-apli/Nādinu//Dābibī), "his brother", informing him that Ṭābia will come to him to record the barley of the temple with him. He updates the High Priest on the location of cress of (tp)Tamirtu-ša-imēri, which was deposited in the house of the City Governor (šākin ṭēmi) (of Uruk) and should be brought. The letter contains information on various amounts of barley, emmer and wheat at the disposal (ina pāni) of various plowmen at various locations that NAI recorded with them: 50;0 of Mukkêa’s plow(team) at Nāˀid-Ištar’s disposal in (tp)Kapru(-ša-naqidāti), 90;0 of barley and 2;0 of wheat of Nanaya-iddin’s plow(team) of (tp)Bīt-Nabû at Eṭel-pî’s disposal in (tp)Bīt-Nabû. 25;0 of barley from Nanaya-iddin’s plow(team) of (tp)Maškan-il at Mukkêa’s disposal. 50;0 of barley and 2;0 of emmer of Nanaya-iddin’s plow(team) that is in (tp)Tīl-Ḫurāṣi at Nādinu’s disposal.
Further Information
- Type and Content
- Letters
- created by
- Martina Schmidl, Nov. 14, 2025, 7:18 p.m.
- last updated by
- Martina Schmidl, May 27, 2026, 9:01 a.m.
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- Kleber 2008
- Schmidl 2019 (unpublished PhD diss.)
- Weszeli, WZKM 95 (2005), 347-385