Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 7258
- Museum No.
- YBC 03552
- Primary Publication
- YOS 3 074
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P304983
- Place of issue
- No place
- Places mentioned on Tablet
- Bāb-Harri-Marduk-apla-iddina
- Gadijatu
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Early Achaemenid
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- XXX. yy-mm-dd
- Inferred date
- Nbn 17-Camb 4 = 539-526 BCE (based on prosopography), very uncertain: possibly 17 Nbn
Digeanna
- Van Driel Files
- 11 a
- Text Form
- Letter (e.g. ṭuppi PN ana PN)
- Domain (Eanna)
- Higher-order management and policies
- Format of the tablet
- portrait
Content
- Paraphrase
Letter of Šamaš-šumu-l[īšir] (ŠŠL) to the High Priest (of Eanna, šatammu) and to Nabû-a[ḫu-iddin] (Royal Overseer, ša rēš šarri bēl piqitti), "his lords", about a barley shipment to (tp)Bāb-Ḫarri-ša-Marduk-aplu-iddin. After they arrived there with the shipment, ŠŠL heard a rumor that 300 ships (sapinātu) were going upstream. He therefore went back to (tp)Gadijatu and sent a messenger to his lords and requests to hear their orders quickly (kapdu). ŠŠL then reports a nightly theft from the ship in (tp)Bāb-Ḫarri(-ša-Marduk-aplu-iddin), when the harbormaster (rab kāri) boarded the ship with 20 men and unlawfully (šigiltu) took 1 KUR.RA-garment, 1 šir’am coat, 1 iron dagger and 3 shekels of silver. The sender states that he wants to write to Bēl-ibni//Ibāya because of this as their rights were clearly infringed in (tp)Bāb-Ḫarri(-ša-Marduk-aplu-iddin) (pirku dabābu).
Further Information
- Type and Content
- Letters
- created by
- Martina Schmidl, March 3, 2026, 8:52 a.m.
- last updated by
- Martina Schmidl, May 26, 2026, 2:32 p.m.
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- Ebeling 1930-1934 (NBrU)
- Schmidl 2019 (unpublished PhD diss.)