Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 8144
- Museum No.
- YBC 03611
- Primary Publication
- YOS 3 078
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P305042
- 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
- The lower edge is empty, the reverse is 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” requesting a bronze kettle (ruqqu), either a new one or the one that had been sent to the Eanna before, likely to be repaired.
Further Information
- created by
- Martina Schmidl, June 2, 2026, 4:25 p.m.
- last updated by
- Martina Schmidl, June 2, 2026, 4:25 p.m.
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- Ebeling 1930-1934 (NBrU)
- Or 60 (1991), 58-81
- Schmidl 2019 (unpublished PhD diss.)