Basic Metadata

NaBuCCo ID
8015
Museum No.
YBC 07435
Primary Publication
YOS 3 037
CDLI P-Identifier
P308378
Place of issue
No place
Places mentioned on Tablet
Bīrāti
Archive
Eanna temple
Period
Early Achaemenid
Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
XXX. yy-mm-dd
Inferred date
Nbk 39 until Camb 3 (566-527 BCE), likely Cyr-Camb (539-527 BCE)

Digeanna

Van Driel Files
11 a
Text Form
Letter (e.g. ṭuppi PN ana PN)
Domain (Eanna)
Storehouse management and allocation of staples
Format of the tablet
portrait

Navico

Theme
Labour tasks & work status
Mobility

Content

Paraphrase

Letter of Ištar-ālik-pāni (courtier, ša rēši, and oblate, širku) to the High Priest (of Eanna, šatammu), "his lord", because he started work in (tp)Bīrātu and has 1000;0 of barley ready at a quay, but only 18 workers. He requests ships from the addressee (to transport it) should any be available in the city.


Further Information

Type and Content
Letters
created by
Martina Schmidl, May 29, 2026, 5 a.m.
last updated by
Martina Schmidl, May 29, 2026, 5 a.m.
Mentioned in the following publication(s)
Ebeling 1930-1934 (NBrU)