Basic Metadata

NaBuCCo ID
8129
Museum No.
YBC 11329
Primary Publication
YOS 21 012
CDLI P-Identifier
P311505
Place of issue
No place
Archive
Eanna temple
Period
Early Achaemenid
Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
XXX. yy-mm-dd
Inferred date
Camb 1-6 = 529-523 BCE (based on prosopography)

Digeanna

Van Driel Files
11 a
Text Form
Letter (e.g. ṭuppi PN ana PN)
Domain (Eanna)
Storehouse management and allocation of staples
Format of the tablet
portrait

Content

Paraphrase

Letter of Ardiya to Bēl-eṭēri-Nabû (Royal Courtier Appointed to Eanna, ša rēš šarri ša ina Eanna paqdu), “his father”, about a patient and an illness in broken context and about dates due from a gardener of the Eanna who opened the underground store (kalakku) and sold dates from there. The sender asks the recipient to imprison (f)Amīltu and to keep here there until the sender arrives.


Further Information

created by
Martina Schmidl, June 2, 2026, 3:07 p.m.
last updated by
Martina Schmidl, June 2, 2026, 3:08 p.m.
Mentioned in the following publication(s)
Schmidl 2019 (unpublished PhD diss.)