Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 8162
- Museum No.
- YBC 08903
- Primary Publication
- YOS 3 172
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P309702
- Place of issue
- No place
- Places mentioned on Tablet
- Kapru
- Šaragītu
- Udannu
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Early Achaemenid
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- XXX. yy-mm-dd
- Inferred date
- roughly Nbn 17-Camb 6 = c. 539-523 BCE (based on the prosopographic dating of other letters in which Nabû-karābī-išme occurs)
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 by a broken sender to broken recipients, “his lords”, answering a message about barley, informing them that they could not obtain a ship for rent on the entire stretch of the watercourse from (tp)Kapru to (tp)Šaragītu. After a break, they confirm that they sent a messenger to the recipients and ask them for a decision. they inform them that Nabû-karābī-išme filled the ship of Aḫu-lūmur/Anu-šumu-ibni with merchandise (mēreštu). In broken context, the whole of the city of (tp)Udannu is mentioned.
Further Information
- created by
- Martina Schmidl, June 3, 2026, 6:08 a.m.
- last updated by
- Martina Schmidl, June 3, 2026, 6:08 a.m.
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- Ebeling 1930-1934 (NBrU)
- Hackl 2007
- Schmidl 2019 (unpublished PhD diss.)