Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 6694
- Museum No.
- YBC 08893
- Primary Publication
- YOS 3 164
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P309692
- 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)
- Storehouse management and allocation of silver
- Format of the tablet
- portrait
Content
- Paraphrase
Letter of Nabû-mukīn-apli (/Nādinu//Dābibī, High Priest, šatammu) (NMA) to Nādinu (/Bēl-aḫḫē-iqīša//Egibi) (temple scribe, ṭupšarru ša Eanna), "his brother", intensively complaining about his situation, and that if he left, barley would disappear, and that Lâbâši and Arad-Marduk, two men who have lots of barley according to NMA, did not send any barley at all. After a broken section, NMA requests 34 shekels of silver that should be sealed and sent to him. He goes on about something he sent before another break in the tablet, which ends in a passage about something or someone being sent and used as a pledge (maškanu). In closing, NMA requests one kandu-container of good wine.
Further Information
- Type and Content
- Letters
- created by
- Martina Schmidl, Jan. 12, 2026, 10:51 a.m.
- last updated by
- Martina Schmidl, May 26, 2026, 2:20 p.m.
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- Ebeling 1930-1934 (NBrU)
- Hackl 2007
- Jursa and Stolper 2007
- Kleber 2008
- Schmidl 2019 (unpublished PhD diss.)