Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 6741
- Museum No.
- YBC 08911
- Primary Publication
- YOS 3 138
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P309710
- Place of issue
- No place
- Regional setting
- Babylon city
- Places mentioned on Tablet
- Sūḫu
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Early Achaemenid
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- XXX. yy-mm-dd
- Inferred date
- Cyr 1-5 = 538-533 BCE (based on prosopography)
Digeanna
- Van Driel Files
- 11 a
- Text Form
- Letter (e.g. ṭuppi PN ana PN)
- Transaction Type
- transactional (incoming)
- Domain (Eanna)
- Storehouse management and allocation of miscellaneous goods
- Formatting remarks
- The tablet is rather thick, but its shape is more regular than that of the calender letters from the Esangila. The handwriting is large and loose, which conforms with the style of calender letters from the Esangila. The tablet is rather thick, but its shape is more regular than those of this group of letters (see Levavi and Schmidl 2021). The reverse is not inscribed in full. The text on the reverse is aligned to the left and presents mainly short lines, i.e., there is much space left at the right-hand side.
- Format of the tablet
- portrait
Content
- Paraphrase
Letter of Zēria (High Priest of Esangila, šatammu), Marduk-zēru-ibni and Nabû-nāṣir to Nidinti-Bēl (/Nabû-mukīn-zēri//Dābibī), High Priest (of Eanna, šatammu), and Nabû-aḫu-iddin (Royal Overseer, ša rēš šarri bēl piqitti) of Eanna, "their brothers", accompanying a delivery of 78 šappatu-containers (of wine) from (tp)Sūḫu via Sîn-ēreš//Ibni-ilī and [Nabû]-nādin-aḫi[//Ḫarba]ṣu and demanding that 50 to 60 ungelded bulls be made ready to be taken by the High Priest (of Eanna, šatammu).
Further Information
- Type and Content
- Letters
- created by
- Martina Schmidl, Jan. 21, 2026, 9:44 a.m.
- last updated by
- Martina Schmidl, May 26, 2026, 2:29 p.m.
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- Ebeling 1930-1934 (NBrU)
- NABU 2003/35
- Schmidl 2019 (unpublished PhD diss.)