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Schmidl 2019 (unpublished PhD diss.)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