Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 8165
- Museum No.
- NBC 01094
- Primary Publication
- BIN 1 048
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P291441
- Place of issue
- No place
- Regional setting
- Uruk city
- 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)
- Higher-order management and policies
- Format of the tablet
- portrait
Navico
Content
- Paraphrase
Letter of Marduk-šumu-uṣur (a sender not from Uruk) to Nabû-aḫu-iddin (Royal Overseer, ša rēš šarri bēl piqitti) (NAI), “his father”, suggesting to bring good and clean figs for the divine meal (offering) (naptanu) and hand them over to the recipient’s messenger where the sender is at in exchange for good wool. He also informs the recipient that the children of Šurānu (Š), a horse handler (šušānu) of the storehouse (nakkandu) have fled to where the recipient is (very likely Uruk) and that he has come to get them. The recipient should make sure that Š can lead his children away without anybody interfering. In closing, he asks for NAI’s decision on the suggested barter trade to be conveyed via Š (who will return to where the sender is with his children and can therefore also function as a messenger).
Further Information
- created by
- Martina Schmidl, June 3, 2026, 6:31 a.m.
- last updated by
- Martina Schmidl, June 3, 2026, 6:31 a.m.
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- Ebeling 1930-1934 (NBrU)
- Schmidl 2019 (unpublished PhD diss.)