Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 8161
- Museum No.
- AO 08927
- Primary Publication
- TCL 9 110
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P386780
- Place of issue
- No place
- Regional setting
- Elam
- Places mentioned on Tablet
- Babylon city
- Tillu-ša-[x]
- Udannu
- Ulai
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Early Achaemenid
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- XXX. yy-mm-dd
- Inferred date
- Nbn 17-Camb 4 = 539-526 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)
- Personnel management and labor allocation
- Formatting remarks
- The reverse of this tablet is thoroughly abraded.
- Format of the tablet
- portrait
Content
- Paraphrase
Letter of Arad-M[arduk] and Ilu-dannu-aḫḫēšu-ibni to the High Priest (of Eanna, šatammu) and Nabû-aḫu-iddin (Royal Overseer, ša rēš šarri bēl piqitti), “his (singular) lords”, reporting that a lot of ships sank on the (tp)Ulai-river. After a broken passage, they mention a ship going to (tp)Udannu and that ships have not yet been released. They request silver, boatmen and (travel) provisions. They inform the recipients that the waterway out of Babylon is ready, but a ship trying to go to (tp)Tillu-ša-[x] is being held back.
Further Information
- created by
- Martina Schmidl, June 2, 2026, 5:52 p.m.
- last updated by
- Martina Schmidl, June 2, 2026, 5:52 p.m.
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- Ebeling 1930-1934 (NBrU)
- Schmidl 2019 (unpublished PhD diss.)