Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 8046
- Museum No.
- NBC 01095
- Primary Publication
- BIN 1 086
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P291442
- Place of issue
- No place
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Early Achaemenid
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- XXX. yy-mm-dd
- Inferred date
- Cyr 5-Camb 4 = 534-525 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 [PN1] to [PN2], "his lord", about silver and royal pressure. The sender states that he has received 2 talents of silver until the 14th of m.XII. He states that they had previously been under pressure from the treasurer (rab kāṣiri) and the governor (bēl pīḫāti), but that now they are also under pressure by scribes and royal courtiers (ša rēš šarri, here rēšū ša šarri), but they have not been relieved from their duty. The letter includes a complaint by Nabû-aḫu-iddin (Royal Overseer, ša rēš šarri bēl piqitti), about having to be in 2 places at once in broken context, and a quote by Parnakka (a high-ranking Achaemenid official) about 1600 ducks, also partly broken.
Further Information
- created by
- Martina Schmidl, May 29, 2026, 11:10 a.m.
- last updated by
- Martina Schmidl, May 29, 2026, 11:10 a.m.
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- Ebeling 1930-1934 (NBrU)
- Schmidl 2019 (unpublished PhD diss.)