Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 8637
- Museum No.
- YBC 03591
- Primary Publication
- YOS 3 167
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P305022
- Place of issue
- No place
- Regional setting
- Uruk region
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Neo-Babylonian
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Npl. yy-mm-dd
- Inferred date
- c. Npl 15-20 (c. 611-606 BCE) (based on prosopography, see dubsar 3: 243)
Digeanna
- Van Driel Files
- 11 a
- Text Form
- Letter (e.g. ṭuppi PN ana PN)
- Transaction Type
- not applicable
- Domain (Eanna)
- Animal husbandry
- Format of the tablet
- portrait
Content
- Paraphrase
Letter of Šumaya (Š) (likely /Munnabittu, offering shepherd, rēˀi ginê) to Marduk-ēṭir (/Bēl-šumu-iškun//Dābibī, Temple Scribe, ṭupšar bīti) (ME), “his lord”, accompanying two men, Nabû-udammiq and [PN] to the recipient who should be sent on without delay (lā bâtu, ḫarrānu ana šēpē šakānu). The sender complains, employing an oath by Bēl, that the sheep and goats ME gave to him are old, although they are starting to look better. Because the animals are too far away from Š, he suggests that ME does the accounting of the animals and delivers their total to him. In closing, he inquires about ME’s instructions and his well-being.
Further Information
- created by
- Martina Schmidl, Sept. 7, 2026, 2:28 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)