Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 8646
- Museum No.
- VAT 18649
- Primary Publication
- VS 20 075
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P373252
- Place of issue
- No place
- Regional setting
- Uruk region
- 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: 253)
Digeanna
- Van Driel Files
- 11 a
- Text Form
- Letter (e.g. ṭuppi PN ana PN)
- Transaction Type
- not applicable
- Domain (Eanna)
- Cult and pertinent craft production
- Format of the tablet
- portrait
Content
- Paraphrase
Letter of Nabû-[…] to the Royal Resident (qīpu) and Marduk-ēṭir (/Bēl-šumu-iškun//Dābibī, Temple Scribe, ṭupšar bīti), “his brothers”, about a man named Marduk-ēṭir (ME) whom he sent to them, telling them something about ME’s household with regard to a Bēl-aḫu-iddin in a broken passage and not to release some priests (kurgarrû). He tells the recipients that ME should not waste time (nubattu lā bâtu) until he equips 2 priests (kurgarrû) to be sent to the sender for the king. In closing, the urges (ḫanṭiš) the recipients for the arrival of priests as there are none with him.
Further Information
- created by
- Martina Schmidl, Sept. 7, 2026, 3:04 p.m.
- last updated by
- Martina Schmidl, Sept. 8, 2026, 1:24 p.m.
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- dubsar 3