Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 8122
- Museum No.
- NBC 01091
- Primary Publication
- BIN 1 064
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P291438
- Place of issue
- No place
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Early Achaemenid
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- XXX. yy-mm-dd
- Inferred date
- Nbn 17-Cyr 4 = 539-535 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 Nergal-īpuš (Governor, bēl pīḫāti, of an unknown district) to Nādinu (/Bēl-aḫḫē-Iqīša//Egibi), Kīnaya (= Ištar-mukīn-apli/Zēria) and Balāṭu (/Sîn-ibni//Rēˀi-alpi) (temple scribes, ṭupšarru ša Eanna), “his brothers”, answering a message by the recipients about 1 mina of silver for fish belonging to Eanna, stating that he sent them 52 shekels via Nabû-uballiṭ (NU) and that NU already has the remaining 8 shekels from an earlier transaction at his disposal.
Further Information
- created by
- Martina Schmidl, June 2, 2026, 2:37 p.m.
- last updated by
- Martina Schmidl, June 2, 2026, 2:37 p.m.
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- Ebeling 1930-1934 (NBrU)
- Schmidl 2019 (unpublished PhD diss.)