Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 7256
- Museum No.
- YBC 07453
- Primary Publication
- YOS 3 015
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P308397
- 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
- Either Cyr 2, 3, 6, 9 or Camb 3 = ca. 537-535, 533, 530 or 527 BCE (intercalary years in the prosopographic framework of Nbn 17-Camb 4 = 539-526 BCE, see Kleber 2008: 268, note 753)
Digeanna
- Van Driel Files
- 11 a
- Text Form
- Letter (e.g. ṭuppi PN ana PN)
- Domain (Eanna)
- Cult and pertinent craft production
- Formatting remarks
- Reverse uninscribed. Rather large, crude handwriting (see Levavi and Schmidl 2021).
- Format of the tablet
- portrait
Content
- Paraphrase
Letter by the officials (qīpānu) of Esagila to the High Priest (of Eanna, šatammu) and Nabû-aḫu-iddin (Royal Overseer, ša rēš šarri bēl piqitti), "their brothers", informing them about an intercalary month.
Further Information
- Type and Content
- Letters
- created by
- Martina Schmidl, March 3, 2026, 8:38 a.m.
- last updated by
- Martina Schmidl, May 26, 2026, 2:32 p.m.
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- Ebeling 1930-1934 (NBrU)
- Kleber 2008
- Levavi and Schmidl, AfO 54
- Schmidl 2019 (unpublished PhD diss.)