Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 8636
- Museum No.
- YBC 08890
- Primary Publication
- YOS 3 163
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P309689
- Place of issue
- No place
- Regional setting
- No place
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Neo-Babylonian
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Npl. yy-mm-dd
- Inferred date
- c. Npl 10-15 (616-611 BCE) (based on prosopography: the recipient is identified as Nabû-nādin-šumi/Bēl-sumu-iškun//Dābibī in his role as Temple Scribe).
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
- Theme
- Labour tasks & work status
- Mobility
- Oblates outside a temple setting
- Oblate/Slave Descriptor
- collective designation
Content
- Paraphrase
Letter by Šamaš-lēˀi (ŠL) to the High Priest (šatammu, Marduk-šākin-šumi/Bēl-šumu-iškun//Dābibī) and Nādinu (= Nabû-nādin-šumi/Bēl-šumu-iškun//Dābibī, Temple Scribe, ṭupšar bīti), “his lords”, informing them that he is in battle for the king and demanding noblemen and royal courtiers (rēš šarri) from the recipients. ŠL also requests 5 slaves (amīlūtu) and 20;0 dates and wants to be made responsible for distributing barley (pūt parāsu… našû), likely to facilitate logistics. ŠL refers the recipients to Ša-Nabû-mannu for information on what ŠL gave to Rēmūt-Bēl. In closing, ŠL swears an oath by Bēl that although the recipients heard what ŠL needed, they did not comply.
Further Information
- created by
- Martina Schmidl, Sept. 7, 2026, 2:21 p.m.
- last updated by
- Martina Schmidl, Sept. 8, 2026, 1:28 p.m.
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- dubsar 3
- Ebeling 1930-1934 (NBrU)