Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 8451
- Museum No.
- PTS 2001
- Primary Publication
- dubsar 3 008
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P470098
- Place of issue
- No place
- Places mentioned on Tablet
- Babylon city
- Uruk city
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Neo-Babylonian
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Npl. yy-mm-dd
- Inferred date
- Npl 10-15 (616-611 BCE) (based on the prosopography of Anu-aḫu-iddin as governor of Uruk and Nebuchadnezzar having left his position as High Priest for the Babylonian army, cf. dubsar 3: 238, 240).
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
Badly damaged letter of Anu-aḫu-iddin (AAI) (Governor of Uruk, šākin ṭēm Uruk) to the Royal Resident (qīpu), High Priest (šatammu), Temple Scribe of Eanna (ṭupšar bīti), Zēria, […], Bēl-[…], Mušallim-Marduk […] mentioning the king repeatedly, a royal decision regarding Babylon and quoting the king on exempting all Urukeans from the service for the house of the chief official in charge of agrarian matters (bīt mašenni), transferring them to Nabû-šumu-ukīn (likely the king’s brother). AAI assures the addressees that he is praying for them, and that he is taking care of their duties (maṣṣartu). The letter wishes blessings (karābu) upon the king and the king’s son (Nebuchadnezzar) and asks for the reports and of the well-being of the recipients (ṭēmu lū šemû).
Further Information
- Type and Content
- Letters
- created by
- Martina Schmidl, July 16, 2026, 8:45 a.m.
- last updated by
- Piotr Turowski, Sept. 24, 2026, 10 a.m.
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- RA 101 (2007), 125-136