Basic Metadata

NaBuCCo ID
8123
Museum No.
YBC 07454
Primary Publication
YOS 3 014
CDLI P-Identifier
P308398
Place of issue
No place
Places mentioned on Tablet
Kašappu
Archive
Eanna temple
Period
Early Achaemenid
Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
XXX. yy-mm-dd
Inferred date
Nbn 12-Cyr 4 = 544-535 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
Formatting remarks
Conspicuously thick tablet written with a split stylus and possible textile imprints on the upper edge.
Format of the tablet
portrait

Content

Paraphrase

Letter of Nergal-īpuš (Governor, bēl pīḫāti, of an unknown district) to Nādinu (/Bēl-aḫḫē-Iqīša//Egibi) and Kīnaya (= Ištar-mukīn-apli//Zēria) (temple scribes, ṭupšarru ša Eanna), “his brothers”, requesting 2;0 of alum of (tp)Kašappi for his demand.


Further Information

created by
Martina Schmidl, June 2, 2026, 2:39 p.m.
last updated by
Martina Schmidl, June 2, 2026, 2:39 p.m.
Mentioned in the following publication(s)
Ebeling 1930-1934 (NBrU)
Schmidl 2019 (unpublished PhD diss.)