Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 8669
- Museum No.
- YBC 11398
- Primary Publication
- YOS 21 139
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P311571
- 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 16-Nbk II 7 = 608-598 BCE (based on prosopography, see dubsar 3: 279), likely towards the end of this time span based on rhetoric
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 Ninurta-šarru-uṣur (Royal Resident, qīpu), Nabû-nādin-šumi (/Bēl-šumu-iškun//Dābibī, High Priest, šatammu) and Marduk-ēṭir (/Bēl-šumu-iškun//Dābibī, Temple Scribe, ṭupšar bīti), “his brothers”, reminding them not to be negligent (lā šelû) about their work and their service (maṣṣartu), about stolen goods in a broken passage, urgently demanding 50 or 60 bow-cases (kuš.tillu) in the current year. He also demands skeins of combed wool (ṣuppu). The sender emphasizes that he has taken care of the recipients' service (maṣṣartu) for 15 years and now he calls this in, telling them to take care (suddir-ma) of his service (maṣṣartu) regarding an allocation of building equipment (simmānû), emphasising that he is not asking for much and that he will return the favor. In closing, he demands 10 gammidatu-garments of red (tabarru) and clean skeins of wool (ṣuppu).
Further Information
- created by
- Martina Schmidl, Sept. 8, 2026, 9:52 a.m.
- last updated by
- Martina Schmidl, Sept. 8, 2026, 1:14 p.m.
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- dubsar 3