Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 6459
- Museum No.
- NBC 01153
- Primary Publication
- BIN 1 007
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P291500
- Place of issue
- No place
- Regional setting
- No place
- Places mentioned on Tablet
- Babylon city
- Nār-šarri
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Early Achaemenid
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- XXX. yy-mm-dd
- Inferred date
- Nbn 17 – Camb 4 = 539-526 BCE (based on prosopography)
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
- Split stylus; line 5 completely written over erasure. The sign I at the beginning of line 21 is partly overwritten by the writing on the left edge (not damaged as indicated by the copy). Lines 28 and 29 are written in an intertwining way.
- Format of the tablet
- portrait
Content
- Paraphrase
Letter of Nabû-aḫu-iddin (NAI) (Royal Overseer, ša rēš šarri bēl piqitti) to Nādinu (N) (/Bēl-aḫḫē-iqīša//Egibi) (temple scribe, ṭupšarru ša Eanna), "his brother", asking whether barley which was supposed to be handed out was indeed handed out, stressing that this should really happen. NAI also informs N that the workers of the royal cattle shed are causing trouble regarding barley because they are not supplied with fodder and straw, and requests that these men receive the necessary goods. NAI orders N to give dates to Silim-ilī, the Keeper of the Royal Box (in Eanna) (ša muḫḫi quppi (ša Eanna)) as allowances (kurummatu) for his men. Some of the dates should be given at the Royal Canal (nār šarri) and are supposed go to Babylon. NAI informs N that since N left, NAI sent two messages to the High Priest (šatammu) about a sheep and a kid.
Further Information
- Type and Content
- Letters
- created by
- Martina Schmidl, Dec. 12, 2025, 5:21 p.m.
- last updated by
- Martina Schmidl, May 26, 2026, 2:44 p.m.
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- Hackl 2007
- Schmidl 2019 (unpublished PhD diss.)