Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 8450
- Museum No.
- YBC 08883
- Primary Publication
- YOS 3 186
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P309682
- Place of issue
- No place
- Places mentioned on Tablet
- Uruk city
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Early Neo-Babylonian
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Npl. yy-mm-dd
- Inferred date
- Early years of Npl (c. 626 BCE onwards) (based on the prosopography of Nabû-zēru-iqīša/Balāssu mentioned in the letter)
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 Ṣidqi (Ṣ) to the High Priest (šatammu, likely Kudurru = crown-prince Nabû-kudurri-uṣur) and the Temple Scribe (likely Marduk-šākin-šumi/Bēl-šumu-iškun//Dābibī), “his lords”, about Nabû-zēru-iqīša/Balāssu (NZI), a Urukean member of the reserve (kutallu) and a servant (ardu) of Rišānna (R). NZI and R owe a debt of gold, but fled to where the recipients are when an attempt was made to have the debt collected. Now the king wrote to the sender about NZI. Ṣ now sends Kinû, a royal messenger, and his own messenger to the recipients to pick up NZI, whom the recipients should find and arrest (ṣābit qātē) by word of the king (amāt šarri). The letter emphazises on the importance of this task (kī nakutti šapāru, lā šelû). In closing, the sender self-designates as the addressee’s (sg.) servant (ardu).
Further Information
- Type and Content
- Letters
- created by
- Martina Schmidl, July 16, 2026, 8:05 a.m.
- last updated by
- Martina Schmidl, July 16, 2026, 8:05 a.m.
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- dubsar 3
- Ebeling 1930-1934 (NBrU)