Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 6690
- Museum No.
- YBC 11397
- Primary Publication
- YOS 21 084
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P311570
- Place of issue
- No place
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Early Achaemenid
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- XXX. yy-mm-dd
- Inferred date
- Cyr 6-Camb 6 (based on prosopography) = c. 533-523 BCE
Digeanna
- Van Driel Files
- 11 a
- Text Form
- Letter (e.g. ṭuppi PN ana PN)
- Domain (Eanna)
- Higher-order management and policies
- Formatting remarks
- The left side of the lower half of the obverse is flattened.
- Format of the tablet
- portrait
Content
- Paraphrase
Letter of Nabû-mukīn-apli (/Nādinu//Dābibī, High Priest, šatammu) (NMA) to Arrabu and Arad-Marduk (possibly /Marduk-šumu-iddin//Bēl-aplu-uṣur, temple scribe, ṭupšarru ša Eanna), "his brothers", answering a previous letter by the recipients about barley by stating that he had delivered a copy of a certain document (šaṭāru) to them with his letter. He then requests a report about sheep and that the senders give allowances (kurummatu) […] of the arranger of the sacrificial table (mubannû) of the Lady of Uruk and Nanaya to the sons of Arad-Nanaya and gives an order that nothing is given to anybody before he arrives. NMA reassures the recipients that that Šullum, the thief (sarru), will not come nearby. In closing, he requests that 0;0.0.2 of sesame for measurers be delivered via Nanaya-ēreš.
Further Information
- Type and Content
- Letters
- created by
- Martina Schmidl, Jan. 12, 2026, 10:25 a.m.
- last updated by
- Martina Schmidl, May 26, 2026, 2:17 p.m.
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- Hackl 2007
- Schmidl 2019 (unpublished PhD diss.)