Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 6857
- Museum No.
- BM 116695
- Primary Publication
- -
- CDLI P-Identifier
- -
- Place of issue
- No place
- Places mentioned on Tablet
- Izalla
- Ṣimiri
- 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 text is aligned to the left and presents mainly short lines, i.e., there is much space left at the right-hand side. The same can be said about the rev. of YOS 3, 138, which was sent by the same senders (and a third person).
- Format of the tablet
- portrait
Content
- Paraphrase
Letter of Zēria (High Priest of Esagila, šatammu) and Marduk-zēru-ibni to Nidinti-Bēl (/Nabû-mukīn-zēri//Dābibī, High Priest of Eanna, šatammu) and Nabû-aḫu-iddin (Royal Overseer, ša rēš šarri bēl piqitti), "their brothers", accompanying a delivery of 2 miḫṣu-containers of wine from (tp)Izalla, one kandu-container of […] wine from (tp)Ṣimiri and [x] šappatu-containers of wine from (tp)Sūḫu, (in sum) worth 3 minas of silver, via Sîn-ēreš and Šamaš-mukīn-apli.
Further Information
- Type and Content
- Letters
- created by
- Martina Schmidl, Jan. 27, 2026, 8:28 a.m.
- last updated by
- Martina Schmidl, May 26, 2026, 2:29 p.m.
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- NABU 2003/35
- Schmidl 2019 (unpublished PhD diss.)