Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 8445
- Museum No.
- NBC 01148
- Primary Publication
- BIN 1 042
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P291495
- Place of issue
- No place
- Regional setting
- Uruk city
- Places mentioned on Tablet
- Babylon city
- Uruk city
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Early Neo-Babylonian
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Npl. yy-mm-dd
- Inferred date
- Npl 0-7 = c. 626-619 BCE (based on prosopography, see dubsar 3: 231)
Digeanna
- Van Driel Files
- 11 a
- Text Form
- Letter (e.g. ṭuppi PN ana PN)
- Domain (Eanna)
- Higher-order management and policies
- Format of the tablet
- portrait
Content
- Paraphrase
Letter of Marduk-šākin-šumi (/Bēl-šumu-iškun//Dābibī, Temple Scribe, ṭupšar bīti) (MŠŠ) to the High Priest (šatammu, Kudurru = crown prince Nabû-kudurri-uṣur), “his brother”, about a Urukean woman, (f)Innin-kēširat, designated as the sender’s “sister” (aḫatu). MŠŠ stresses his personal relationship with this woman. A man, designated as the temple administrator’s “brother” (aḫu) took her to Babylon without fulfilling his obligations towards her: allowances (kurummatu), a cloth (muṣiptu) and oil. The sender asks the recipient to make the man stand by his obligations, otherwise, the woman should be sent back. At the end of the letter, MŠŠ sender stresses his loyalty (unclear: towards the addressee or towards the woman).
Further Information
- Type and Content
- Letters
- created by
- Martina Schmidl, July 15, 2026, 8:46 p.m.
- last updated by
- Martina Schmidl, July 15, 2026, 8:46 p.m.
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- dubsar 3
- Ebeling 1930-1934 (NBrU)