Basic Metadata

NaBuCCo ID
8143
Museum No.
PTS 2025
Primary Publication
CDLI P-Identifier
P470122
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
Formatting remarks
Only roughly the upper half of the tablet is preserved. The revere is not inscribed in full.
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”. [break] In closing, he requests […] for the procession of Šamaš.


Further Information

created by
Martina Schmidl, June 2, 2026, 4:23 p.m.
last updated by
Martina Schmidl, June 2, 2026, 4:23 p.m.
Mentioned in the following publication(s)
Schmidl 2019 (unpublished PhD diss.)