Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 8155
- Museum No.
- AO 06865
- Primary Publication
- TCL 9 134
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P386804
- Place of issue
- No place
- Regional setting
- Larsa
- Archive
- Carian
- Period
- Early Achaemenid
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Cyr. yy-mm-dd
- Inferred date
- Cyr 1-4 = 538-534 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
- Format of the tablet
- portrait
Content
- Paraphrase
Letter of Šamaš-ḫatin-enši (/Šamaš-zēru-iqīša, scribe, ṭupšarru) to Nādinu (/Bēl-aḫḫē-iqīša//Egibi), Kīnaya (= Ištar-mukīn-apli/Zēria), Mūrānu (Nabû-bāni-aḫi//Ekur-zākir) and Balāṭu (/Sîn-ibni//Rēˀi-alpi) (temple scribes, ṭupšarru ša Eanna), “his brothers”, urgently (kapdu, ḫarrānu ana šēpē šakānu) requesting birds for the eššēšu-feast days (eššēšu). He sent Bāniya to the recipients to pick up the birds.
Further Information
- created by
- Martina Schmidl, June 2, 2026, 5:21 p.m.
- last updated by
- Martina Schmidl, June 2, 2026, 5:21 p.m.
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- Ebeling 1930-1934 (NBrU)
- Or 60 (1991), 58-81
- Schmidl 2019 (unpublished PhD diss.)