Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 6693
- Museum No.
- YBC 07448
- Primary Publication
- YOS 3 029
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P308392
- Place of issue
- No place
- Places mentioned on Tablet
- Babylon city
- 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
- Formatting remarks
- The handwriting is rather cursive.
- Format of the tablet
- portrait
Content
- Paraphrase
Letter of Nabû-mukīn-apli (/Nādinu//Dābibī, High Priest, šatammu) (NMA) and Nabû-aḫu-iddin (Royal Overseer, ša rēš šarri bēl piqitti) (NAI) to Arad-Marduk and Iddinaya, "their brothers", ordering them to send Ardiya/Eanna-šumu-ibni, Ina-ṣilli-Nanaya and Bēl-eṭēri-Šamaš for shipping dates upstream in accordance with the tablets the men received from the senders. NMA and NAI also make the recipients responsible for checking on the fodder of the cattle and the sheep should Iddinaya/Bēl-uballiṭ go to Babylon.
Further Information
- Type and Content
- Letters
- created by
- Martina Schmidl, Jan. 12, 2026, 10:46 a.m.
- last updated by
- Martina Schmidl, May 29, 2026, 7:01 a.m.
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- Ebeling 1930-1934 (NBrU)
- Schmidl 2019 (unpublished PhD diss.)