Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 8044
- Museum No.
- YBC 03556
- Primary Publication
- YOS 3 041
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P304987
- Place of issue
- No place
- Regional setting
- Uruk region
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Early Achaemenid
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Cyr. yy-mm-dd
- Inferred date
- Cyr 1-4/5 = 538-534/533 BCE (based on prosopography)
Digeanna
- Van Driel Files
- 11 a
- Text Form
- Letter (e.g. ṭuppi PN ana PN)
- Second-order accounting
- True
- Domain (Eanna)
- Storehouse management and allocation of miscellaneous goods
- Format of the tablet
- portrait
Navico
Content
- Paraphrase
Letter of Balāṭu (likely /Innin-zēru-šubši, a herdsmen) (B), to Nādinu (/Bēl-aḫḫē-iqīša//Egibi), Kīnaya (= Ištar-mukīn-apli//Zēriya) and Mūrānu (Nabû-bāni-aḫi//Ekur-zākir) (temple scribes, ṭupšarru ša Eanna), "his fathers", about dates, silver, barley, cattle, and dried figs.
He reports on half a mina of silver for dates for the allowances (kurummatu) of the oblates (širku) which was paid out as barley from the karammu-silo, recorded on 3rd of m.I and handed out by Ištar-ālik-pāni, courtier (ša rēši) (and oblate, širku), and Rēmūt, a runner (musaḫḫiru), with the document being deposited with the barley of the karammu-silo.
He reports on cattle which Mannu-kī-dāda (/Nabû-zabad) (MKD) led away and which was recorded as MKD’s outstanding delivery in replacement (kutallu) cows (for missing plough oxen) by order of the High Priest (of Eanna). B then complains about the Keeper of the Royal Box (in Eanna) (ša muḫḫi quppi ša Eanna), who led away 4 bulls, in part suitable for sacrifice, for the offering for the king from Ina-ṣilli-Nanāya, Nabû-aḫu-iddin’s slave, without informing B. B also answers a previous message by the recipients about barley for the cattle shed, telling them that Nanaya-aḫu-iddin (NAI) only brought 30;0 instead of the ordered 70;0 because, according to NAI, he could not obtain more barley.
B then reproaches the recipients that despite writing to them several times, he has not been told what to do about dried figs for which 1 mina of silver for which Šamaš-zēru-ibni had already been paid, but which have not yet been received.
Further Information
- created by
- Martina Schmidl, May 29, 2026, 11 a.m.
- last updated by
- Martina Schmidl, May 29, 2026, 11:37 a.m.
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- Ebeling 1930-1934 (NBrU)
- Kozuh 2014
- Schmidl 2019 (unpublished PhD diss.)