Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 6678
- Museum No.
- YBC 08864
- Primary Publication
- YOS 3 146
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P309663
- Place of issue
- No place
- Places mentioned on Tablet
- Raqqat-Šamaš
- Tahūṭā
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Early Achaemenid
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- XXX. yy-mm-dd
- Inferred date
- Nbn 17 – Camb 4, possibly only Cyr 1-2 (539-526, possibly 539 until 538-536 BCE) (based on prosopography and content)
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
- portrait
Content
- Paraphrase
Letter by Kalbāya (K) (likely /Iqīša//Basia, a rent farmer, ša muḫḫi sūti) to Nabû-aḫu-iddin (NAI) (Royal Overseer, ša rēš šarri bēl piqitti), "his lord", about a previous letter by NAI which stated that men were going to (tp)Taḫuṭa and that there were no plowmen. K reports that plowman who had fled were captured and delivered to him in fetters, but that all plowmen escaped (again), impairing K’s work. K informs NAI that he will give a small amount of barley to Šamaš-erība and to the workers of (tp)Raqqat-Šamaš. In closing, he tells NAI about a planned meeting with Bēl-ibni and that he will go to (tp)Taḫūṭa with the recipient.
Further Information
- Type and Content
- Letters
- created by
- Martina Schmidl, Jan. 12, 2026, 7:02 a.m.
- last updated by
- Martina Schmidl, May 27, 2026, 9:01 a.m.
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- Ebeling 1930-1934 (NBrU)
- Schmidl 2019 (unpublished PhD diss.)