Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 8147
- Museum No.
- NBC 01138
- Primary Publication
- BIN 1 001
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P291485
- Place of issue
- No place
- Regional setting
- Larsa
- Places mentioned on Tablet
- Babylon city
- Uruk city
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Early Achaemenid
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Nbk IV. 1-mm-dd
- Inferred date
- Nbk IV 1 (based on prosopography and context: moving cult statues to Babylon)
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) and Iddin-Šamaš to the High Priest (of Eanna, šatammu, Šamaš-mukīn-apli/Nādinu//Egibi), “his father”, requesting catle for the cult of Šamaš for the 8th day. He also requests that 30;0 of dates be made available in Uruk to go up to Babylon with Šamaš.
Further Information
- created by
- Martina Schmidl, June 2, 2026, 4:32 p.m.
- last updated by
- Martina Schmidl, June 2, 2026, 4:32 p.m.
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- Or 60 (1991), 58-81
- Schmidl 2019 (unpublished PhD diss.)