Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 8152
- Museum No.
- YBC 03573
- Primary Publication
- YOS 3 094
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P305004
- Place of issue
- No place
- Regional setting
- Larsa
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Early Achaemenid
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- XXX. yy-mm-dd
- Inferred date
- Nbn 9-Cyr 4 = 547-535 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
- Space for one more line left empty at the end of the reverse. The writing is broad and contains a lot of erasures; compare YOS 3, 093 by the same senders, which presents several unusual spellings. The writer’s stylus is likely to have split (and kept splitting) while writing the letter. The defect is rather subtle at first, e.g., in ll. 16ff., but it becomes gradually more visible as the text progresses, see, e.g., l. 20. It proceeds from two imprints of a single wedge to up to five imprints of a single wedge.
- Format of the tablet
- portrait
Content
- Paraphrase
Letter of Balāssu and Nidinti-Šamaš (/Šamaš-mūkin-apli//Šangû-Šamaš, scribe, ṭupšarru) to Balāṭu (/Sîn-ibni//Rēˀi-alpi, temple scribe, ṭupšarru ša Eanna), “their father”, accompanying Šamaš-ilūˀa, the weaver, who should deliver blue wool (takiltu) for the work of Šamaš which is requested from the recipient.
Further Information
- created by
- Martina Schmidl, June 2, 2026, 4:59 p.m.
- last updated by
- Martina Schmidl, June 2, 2026, 4:59 p.m.
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- Ebeling 1930-1934 (NBrU)
- Or 60 (1991), 58-81
- Schmidl 2019 (unpublished PhD diss.)