Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 6738
- Museum No.
- NBC 01145
- Primary Publication
- BIN 1 047
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P291492
- Place of issue
- No place
- Regional setting
- Ur region
- Places mentioned on Tablet
- Eridu
- 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)
- Transaction Type
- multiple transactions
- Domain (Eanna)
- Storehouse management and allocation of silver
- Format of the tablet
- portrait
Content
- Paraphrase
Letter of Nabû-šarrūssu, Royal Resident (qīpu) of the temple of Eridu (bīt apsî), to Kināya (= Nabû-mukīn-apli/Nādinu//Dābibī), High Priest of Eanna (šatammu), and Nabû-aḫu-iddin, Royal Overseer of Eanna (ša rēš šarri bēl piqitti), "his fathers", accompanying a delivery of 15 shekels of silver via Ea-ana-bītišu to urgently (kapdu) obtain wax of 10 shekels, kalû-paste (yellow ochre, written im.ga.li) for 2 shekels and cedar wood for three shekels from the Eanna in return.
Further Information
- Type and Content
- Letters
- created by
- Martina Schmidl, Jan. 21, 2026, 9:25 a.m.
- last updated by
- Martina Schmidl, May 26, 2026, 2:29 p.m.
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- Ebeling 1930-1934 (NBrU)
- Schmidl 2019 (unpublished PhD diss.)