Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 8030
- Museum No.
- YBC 08917
- Primary Publication
- YOS 3 119
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P309716
- Place of issue
- No place
- Places mentioned on Tablet
- Ḫīt
- 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
- Format of the tablet
- portrait
Content
- Paraphrase
Letter by a broken sender to Mūrānu (Nabû-bāni-aḫi//Ekur-zākir) and Balāṭu (/Sîn-ibni//Rēˀi-alpi) (temple scribes, ṭupšarru ša Eanna), “his fathers”, complaining that his work is hard. In broken context, he is involved with ships going to (tp)Ḫit, and requests that the recipients give four large ships to Guzānu who is with them as well as the allowances (kurummatu) for 30 workers. He also informs them that 5 spades are broken. After a broken passage in which content phrased in direct speech is lost, the text mentions 10 kudurru-baskets for 1 shekel of silver.
Further Information
- created by
- Martina Schmidl, May 29, 2026, 9:14 a.m.
- last updated by
- Martina Schmidl, May 29, 2026, 9:14 a.m.
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- Ebeling 1930-1934 (NBrU)
- Hackl 2007
- Jursa 2010
- Schmidl 2019 (unpublished PhD diss.)
- WZKM 98 (2008), 81-94.