Basic Metadata

NaBuCCo ID
8117
Museum No.
FLP 1487
Primary Publication
JCS 28 (1976) no. 40
Place of issue
No place
Regional setting
Uruk city
Archive
Eanna temple
Period
Early Achaemenid
Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
XXX. yy-mm-dd
Inferred date
Nbn 4-Camb 5 = 552-525 BCE (possibly until 519 BCE) (based on prosopography)

Digeanna

Van Driel Files
11 b
Text Form
Letter order (...)
Transaction Type
transactional (outgoing)
Domain (Eanna)
Storehouse management and allocation of staples
Format of the tablet
landscape

Navico

Theme
Labour tasks & work status
Social networks & circles

Content

Paraphrase

Letter order without introduction ordering the recipients to give 3;0 of dates instead of flour of the supplementary offering payment (malātu ša miḫir) of the architects (itinnu) to the slaves (ardu) of Arad-Marduk/Zēriya on behalf of the architects (itinnu), aside from the dates which are written down as being at the recipients’ disposal.


Further Information

created by
Martina Schmidl, June 2, 2026, 2:13 p.m.
last updated by
Martina Schmidl, June 2, 2026, 2:13 p.m.
Mentioned in the following publication(s)
Schmidl 2019 (unpublished PhD diss.)
Stigers, JCS 28 (1976), 3-59