Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 8140
- Museum No.
- YBC 03579
- Primary Publication
- YOS 3 018
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P305010
- Place of issue
- No place
- Regional setting
- Larsa
- Places mentioned on Tablet
- Babylon city
- Mēšānu
- Piqūdu
- Uruk city
- 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 upper edge presents some peculiar strokes. The reverse is inscribed in full.
- 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”, assuring them that he prayed for them ever since they went to Babylon. He informs them that when they left for Uruk, he went to (tp)Piqūdu to the deputy governor (šanû, could be of Piqūdu or the Sealand) concerning the digging of a canal. He stresses that he is hard pressed. He reports that when he sent silver to (tp)Mēšānu for sheep, they were already expensive, so he requests 30 to 40 sheep for the cult of Šamaš as well as two jars of wine.
Further Information
- created by
- Martina Schmidl, June 2, 2026, 4:01 p.m.
- last updated by
- Martina Schmidl, June 2, 2026, 4:01 p.m.
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- Ebeling 1930-1934 (NBrU)
- Or 60 (1991), 58-81
- Schmidl 2019 (unpublished PhD diss.)
- Tolini 2011 (PhD Diss.)