Basic Metadata

NaBuCCo ID
8668
Museum No.
YBC 11245
Primary Publication
YOS 21 138
CDLI P-Identifier
P311422
Place of issue
No place
Regional setting
Sealand
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: 278)

Digeanna

Van Driel Files
11 a
Text Form
Letter (e.g. ṭuppi PN ana PN)
Transaction Type
not applicable
Domain (Eanna)
Storehouse management and allocation of miscellaneous goods
Format of the tablet
portrait

Content

Paraphrase

Letter of the Governor of the Sealand (šākin māti) to Nabû-nādin-šumi (/Bēl-šumu-iškun//Dābibī, High Priest, šatammu), “his brother”, confirming that he got his message and ordering him to make a high-quality and beautiful leather-šipānu, a šir’am-coat (šir’am) and a leather-tartatu, to wash the items and to have them quickly (ḫanṭiš) delivered to him.


Further Information

created by
Martina Schmidl, Sept. 8, 2026, 9:49 a.m.
last updated by
Martina Schmidl, Sept. 8, 2026, 1:14 p.m.
Mentioned in the following publication(s)
dubsar 3