Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 8153
- Museum No.
- YBC 03567
- Primary Publication
- YOS 3 093
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P304998
- Place of issue
- No place
- Regional setting
- Larsa
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Early Achaemenid
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Cyr. yy-mm-dd
- Inferred date
- Cyr 1-4 = 538-535 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
- The tablet is fully inscribed, including one line on the left edge.
- Format of the tablet
- portrait
Content
- Paraphrase
Letter of Balāssu and Nidinti-Šamaš (/Šamaš-mūkin-apli//Šangû-Šamaš, scribe, ṭupšarru) to Nādinu (/Bēl-aḫḫē-iqīša//Egibi), Kīnaya (= Ištar-mukīn-apli//Zēria), Balāṭu (/Sîn-ibni//Rēˀi-alpi) and Mūrānu (Nabû-bāni-aḫi//Ekur-zākir) (temple scribes, ṭupšarru ša Eanna), “his (singular) brothers”, requesting poultry, 20 to 30 one month old birds. Until their eggs and then the birds are available, they request 5 ducks for (ritual) selection (parāsu). They ask to hear a decision on this soon (kapdu, ṭēmu lū šemû).
Further Information
- created by
- Martina Schmidl, June 2, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
- last updated by
- Martina Schmidl, June 2, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- Ebeling 1930-1934 (NBrU)
- Or 60 (1991), 58-81
- Schmidl 2019 (unpublished PhD diss.)