Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 8641
- Museum No.
- YBC 11344
- Primary Publication
- YOS 21 058
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P311519
- Place of issue
- No place
- Regional setting
- Uruk region
- Places mentioned on Tablet
- Uruk city
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Neo-Babylonian
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- XXX. yy-mm-dd
- Inferred date
- Npl 15-Nbk II 7 = 609-598 BCE (based on prosopography, see dubsar 3: 248)
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
- Formatting
- True
- Formatting remarks
- The letter has an addendum at the end, 1 - or ana - iti, framed by two vertical lines.
- Format of the tablet
- landscape
Content
- Paraphrase
Letter of Mušallim-Marduk to Marduk-ēṭir (/Bēl-šumu-iškun//Dābibī, Temple Scribe, ṭupšar bīti) (ME), “his lord”, explaining that he had been sick for a long time and could not leave Uruk to see the recipient (here addressed as “his brother”, aḫu). He elaborately stresses his loyalty and subordination to ME and requests a message from him (amātu lū šemû).
Further Information
- created by
- Martina Schmidl, Sept. 7, 2026, 2:44 p.m.
- last updated by
- Martina Schmidl, Sept. 8, 2026, 1:26 p.m.
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- dubsar 3