Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 8024
- Museum No.
- YBC 11355
- Primary Publication
- YOS 21 008
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P311530
- Place of issue
- No place
- Places mentioned on Tablet
- Babylon city
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Early Achaemenid
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Cyr. 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
- Formatting remarks
- The writing on the tablet is very dense. The lines are written far over the edge of the obverse and the signs tend to get bigger as the text progresses.
- Format of the tablet
- portrait
Content
- Paraphrase
Letter of Arad-Innin (AI) to Nādinu (/Bēl-aḫḫē-iqīša//Egibi), Kīnaya (= Ištar-mukīn-apli//Zēriya), Balāṭu (/Sîn-ibni//Rēˀi-alpi) and Mūrānu (/Nabû-bāni-aḫi//Ekur-zākir) (temple scribes, ṭupšarru ša Eanna), "his fathers", listing arrows and spearheads (sagaranu) which he bought for the silver the recipients had delivered to him, 2100 Akkadian arrows for half a mina of silver at a price ratio of 70 (arrows) per one shekel, with 1000 still outstanding. 1100 Cimmerian arrows at a price ratio of 100 (arrows) per shekel, 100 spearheads (sagaranu) for 12 shekels of silver at a ratio of eight for one shekel minus five še. The senders can get back 12 shekels of silver in Babylon. The delivery was paid for by the sender with silver from the treasury at his disposal. He goes on to mention the work assignment (iškāru) of a house that was closed (or established - [i]s-[s]a-an-gar/GAR) and mentions likely [silver] in broken context that he will definitely deliver quickly (kapdu), without any delay. 7 shekels of silver will be delivered [to x]. In closing, he asks for his fathers’ orders and well-being and states that the military goods were delivered to them in the kusītu-ship via Eanna-līpī-uṣur and Rēmūt.
Further Information
- created by
- Martina Schmidl, May 29, 2026, 8:04 a.m.
- last updated by
- Martina Schmidl, May 29, 2026, 8:04 a.m.
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- Gombert 2018 (unpublished PhD diss.)
- Kleber 2014
- MacGinnis 2012
- Schmidl 2019 (unpublished PhD diss.)