Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 8045
- Museum No.
- YBC 07441
- Primary Publication
- YOS 3 032
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P308385
- Place of issue
- No place
- Regional setting
- Ur region
- Places mentioned on Tablet
- Larsa
- Ur city
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Early Achaemenid
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- XXX. yy-mm-dd
- Inferred date
- Cyr 8(?)-Camb 4 = 531-525 BCE (based on prosopography)
Digeanna
- Van Driel Files
- 11 a
- Text Form
- Letter (e.g. ṭuppi PN ana PN)
- Domain (Eanna)
- Higher-order management and policies
- Format of the tablet
- portrait
Content
- Paraphrase
Letter of Balāṭu (/Nabû-ušallim//Rēˀi-ginê, offering shepherd, rēˀi ginê) to the High Priest (of Eanna, šatammu, Nabû-mukīn-apli/Nādinu//Dābibī), "his lord", about meeting royal Aramaic scribes (sēpiru) and having fodder shipped to them. He approached the topic of buying sheep and they required a gift from him to make a sale of sheep against goods (barley or dates) in (tp)Ur, so he now requests 20 shekels of silver and a well-arranged offering via Nabû-ēṭer-napšāti. In closing, he states that he went with them to (tp)Larsa.
Further Information
- created by
- Martina Schmidl, May 29, 2026, 11:06 a.m.
- last updated by
- Martina Schmidl, May 29, 2026, 11:06 a.m.
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- Jursa 2012
- Schmidl 2019 (unpublished PhD diss.)