Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 6739
- Museum No.
- YBC 03599
- Primary Publication
- YOS 3 043
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P305030
- Place of issue
- No place
- Regional setting
- Babylon city
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Early Achaemenid
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- XXX. yy-mm-dd
- Inferred date
- Cyr 8-Camb 4 (based on prosopography) = 531-525 BCE
Digeanna
- Van Driel Files
- 11 a
- Text Form
- Letter (e.g. ṭuppi PN ana PN)
- Legal Purpose
- Summons (adi ... abāku, alāku)
- Transaction Type
- not applicable
- Domain (Eanna)
- Higher-order management and policies
- Formatting remarks
- The whole tablet is abraded.
- Format of the tablet
- portrait
Content
- Paraphrase
Letter of Marduk-zākir-šumi (city governor, šākin ṭēmi, of Babylon, MZŠ), 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 brothers", quoting a complaint by Nabû-nādin-apli (NNA) about outstanding claims and an unwillingness by the involved parties to cooperate in order to handle the situation. MZŠ now tells the recipients that nobody should intervene with whoever NNA and the sender’s messenger detain. They should be sent to him to have their case heard and decided.
Further Information
- Type and Content
- Letters
- created by
- Martina Schmidl, Jan. 21, 2026, 9:32 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- Schmidl 2019 (unpublished PhD diss.)