Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 8134
- Museum No.
- YBC 08847
- Primary Publication
- YOS 3 100
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P309649
- Place of issue
- No place
- Regional setting
- Larsa
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Early Achaemenid
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- XXX. yy-mm-dd
- Inferred date
- Nbn 12-Cyr 9 = 544-530 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
- The letter was written with a split stylus. The text covers only the obverse, the reverse of the tablet is empty.
- Format of the tablet
- portrait
Content
- Paraphrase
Letter of Nādin-aḫi (Royal Supervisor of the Ebabbar of Larsa, qīpu) to Nādinu (/Bēl-aḫḫē-iqīša//Egibi) (temple scribe, ṭupšarru ša Eanna), “his brother”, requesting an overnight delivery of syrup (dišpu) and ghee for the ritual preparation (riksu) of the bronze kettledrum (lilissu).
Further Information
- created by
- Martina Schmidl, June 2, 2026, 3:39 p.m.
- last updated by
- Martina Schmidl, June 2, 2026, 3:39 p.m.
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- Ebeling 1930-1934 (NBrU)
- Or 60 (1991), 58-81
- Schmidl 2019 (unpublished PhD diss.)