Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 6687
- Museum No.
- YBC 08899
- Primary Publication
- YOS 3 139
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P309698
- Place of issue
- No place
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Early Achaemenid
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- XXX. yy-mm-dd
- Inferred date
- Nbn 17-Cyr 1 (based on prosopography), most likely Nbn 17 (based on content) = c. 539-538 BCE, most likely 539 BCE
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 of Bēl-zēru-ibni (BZI) to Nabû-mukīn-zēri (/Nādinu//Dābibī, High Priest, šatammu) (NMZ), "his brother", about outposts which are checked by a royal messenger once a month and which NMZ should have manned with hired workers. As NMZ is close to the outposts, BZI did not inform the king about this problem. BZI then informs the High Priest that Šamaš-zēru-ibni (SZI), chief of flocks (rab būli), left his outposts abandoned. NMZ should therefore put him in fetters and sent him to BZI, and he should equip (rašādu Š) SZI’s troops with quivers, lances, iron daggers, pīḫātu-textiles (túg.pu-ḫa-tú) and headgear.
Further Information
- Type and Content
- Letters
- created by
- Martina Schmidl, Jan. 12, 2026, 9:24 a.m.
- last updated by
- Martina Schmidl, May 26, 2026, 2:16 p.m.
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- Ebeling 1930-1934 (NBrU)
- Kleber 2008
- Kozuh 2006 (dissertation)
- Schmidl 2019 (unpublished PhD diss.)