Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 8138
- Museum No.
- YBC 03547
- Primary Publication
- YOS 3 051
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P304978
- 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 17-Cyr 9 = 539-530 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 lower edge is uninscribed and about one-third of the reverse is inscribed. The tablet shows slight imprints of a textile, especially in the first five lines of the obverse. The tablet contains a conspicuously high number of erasures, even for Larsa.
- Format of the tablet
- portrait
Content
- Paraphrase
Letter of Nādin-aḫi (Royal Supervisor of the Ebabbar of Larsa, qīpu) to the High Priest (of Eanna, šatammu) and Nabû-aḫu-iddin (Royal Overseer, ša rēš šarri bēl piqitti), “his brothers”, requesting men as carriers for a procession, leather items, ghee (ḫimētu) and dried figs and a replacement for a silver nasabbu-container for the eššēšu-fest days (eššēšu) which the prebendaries (kiništu) bring with them (to Larsa).
Further Information
- created by
- Martina Schmidl, June 2, 2026, 3:53 p.m.
- last updated by
- Martina Schmidl, June 2, 2026, 3:53 p.m.
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- Ebeling 1930-1934 (NBrU)
- Or 60 (1991), 58-81
- Schmidl 2019 (unpublished PhD diss.)