Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 6691
- Museum No.
- NCBT 00006
- Primary Publication
- YOS 21 085
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P302059
- 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 4 (based on prosopography) = c. 533-525 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 Nabû-mukīn-apli (/Nādinu//Dābibī, High Priest, šatammu) to Nabû-aḫu-iddin (Royal Overseer, ša rēš šarri bēl piqitti), "his brother", about a lack of female water sprinklers (sallūḫatu) in the inner temple precinct. He informs the recipient that (f)Muḫḫū[tu]/Marduk-[…] should do this task.
Further Information
- Type and Content
- Letters
- created by
- Martina Schmidl, Jan. 12, 2026, 10:31 a.m.
- last updated by
- Martina Schmidl, May 26, 2026, 2:18 p.m.
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- Schmidl 2019 (unpublished PhD diss.)
- ZAR 14 (2008), 1-38