Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 8160
- Museum No.
- NCBT 00970
- Primary Publication
- YOS 21 118
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P303023
- Place of issue
- No place
- Regional setting
- Udannu
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Early Achaemenid
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- XXX. yy-mm-dd
- Inferred date
- Nbn 12-Camb 4 = 544-526 BCE (based on the prosopography of other letters by the same sender)
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 shows vertical, parallel rills which could be textile impressions. The lower egde is uninscribed, less than half of the reverse is inscribed.
- Format of the tablet
- portrait
Content
- Paraphrase
Badly broken letter of Nanāya-erēš (an official from the temple of (tp)Udannu) to the High Priest (of Eanna, šatammu), “his lord”, about 10;0 of barley at the disposal of Dannu-aḫḫē-ibni/[…] [broken] and the sender having received something.
Further Information
- created by
- Martina Schmidl, June 2, 2026, 5:42 p.m.
- last updated by
- Martina Schmidl, June 2, 2026, 5:42 p.m.
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- Schmidl 2019 (unpublished PhD diss.)