Basic Metadata

NaBuCCo ID
8142
Museum No.
W 18094a
Primary Publication
Gehlken 1995 no. 5
Place of issue
No place
Regional setting
Larsa
Archive
Eanna temple
Period
Early Achaemenid
Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
Cam. yy-mm-dd
Inferred date
Camb Acc-4 = 530-526 BCE (based on prosopography)

Digeanna

Van Driel Files
11 a
Text Form
Letter (e.g. ṭuppi PN ana PN)
Transaction Type
not applicable
Domain (Eanna)
Higher-order management and policies
Format of the tablet
portrait

Content

Paraphrase

Letter of Śameš-ˁidrī (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 fathers”, accompanying Šamaš-ēdu-uṣur, a bleacher (pūṣāyu), whom he sent to the recipients to pick up a tent for Šamaš.


Further Information

created by
Martina Schmidl, June 2, 2026, 4:21 p.m.
last updated by
Martina Schmidl, June 2, 2026, 4:21 p.m.
Mentioned in the following publication(s)
Schmidl 2019 (unpublished PhD diss.)