Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 6679
- Museum No.
- YBC 08869
- Primary Publication
- YOS 3 150
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P309668
- Place of issue
- No place
- 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
- Format of the tablet
- portrait
Content
- Paraphrase
Letter of Kalbāya (K) to Nabû-aḫu-iddin (Royal Overseer, ša rēš šarri bēl piqitti) (NAI), "his lord", answering a previous message about barley. K informs NAI that he sent a messenger with Eanna-ibni who will give him barley and emmer.
Further Information
- Type and Content
- Letters
- created by
- Martina Schmidl, Jan. 12, 2026, 7:04 a.m.
- last updated by
- Martina Schmidl, May 26, 2026, 2:13 p.m.
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- Ebeling 1930-1934 (NBrU)
- Schmidl 2019 (unpublished PhD diss.)