Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 6695
- Museum No.
- YBC 03584
- Primary Publication
- YOS 3 088
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P305015
- 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 miscellaneous goods
- Format of the tablet
- portrait
Content
- Paraphrase
Letter of Nabû-mukīn-apli (/Nādinu//Dābibī, High Priest, šatammu) (NMA) to Nādinu (/Bēl-aḫḫē-iqīša//Egibi) and Arad-Marduk (/Marduk-šumu-iddin//Bēl-aplu-uṣur (temple scribes, ṭupšarru ša Eanna), "his brothers", answering a message by the two recipients about wine and necessities (ḫišiḫtu) by telling them that he was late, but that he will now come without tarrying (akāšu, alāku). In closing, he tells them to have taken apart (ḫašālu) 100 supernumerous (atru) iron spades (for re-usage).
Further Information
- Type and Content
- Letters
- created by
- Martina Schmidl, Jan. 12, 2026, 11 a.m.
- last updated by
- Martina Schmidl, May 26, 2026, 2:20 p.m.
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- Ebeling 1930-1934 (NBrU)
- Schmidl 2019 (unpublished PhD diss.)
- Streck 2014