Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 8023
- Museum No.
- YBC 08898
- Primary Publication
- YOS 3 140
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P309697
- 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
- Cyr 1-4 = 538-534 BCE (based on prosopography)
Digeanna
- Van Driel Files
- 11 a
- Text Form
- Letter (e.g. ṭuppi PN ana PN)
- Domain (Eanna)
- Storehouse management and allocation of miscellaneous goods
- Format of the tablet
- portrait
Content
- Paraphrase
Letter of Innin-šumu-ibni (/Nabû-bēlšunu) to Nādinu (/Bēl-aḫḫē-iqīša//Egibi), Kīnaya (= Ištar-mukīn-apli//Zēriya), Mūrānu (Nabû-bāni-aḫi//Ekur-zākir) and Balāṭu (/Sîn-ibni//Rēˀi-alpi) (temple scribes, ṭupšarru ša Eanna), "his fathers", about something (text broken) being taken from the karammu-silo, which the sender had been guarding (maṣṣartu) successfully for a long time, by Nanaya-īpuš. He complains that his work is hard (dullu ittiya danānu) and requests a replacement for someone working with him. In case the sender cannot come to the recipients, they should send Arrabu/Arad-Bēl to deliver wool to him or they should send it via a traveler. In closing, he requests the recipients’ orders and news about their well-being.
Further Information
- created by
- Martina Schmidl, May 29, 2026, 6:45 a.m.
- last updated by
- Martina Schmidl, May 29, 2026, 6:45 a.m.
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- Ebeling 1930-1934 (NBrU)
- Hackl 2007
- JNES 74/2 (2015), 197-210
- Schmidl 2019 (unpublished PhD diss.)