Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 8675
- Museum No.
- YBC 11436
- Primary Publication
- YOS 21 137
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P311607
- Place of issue
- No place
- Regional setting
- Sealand
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Neo-Babylonian
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Nbk. yy-mm-dd
- Inferred date
- early Nbk II = shortly after 605 BCE (based on prosopography, see dubsar 3: 285)
Digeanna
- Van Driel Files
- 11 a
- Text Form
- Letter (e.g. ṭuppi PN ana PN)
- Transaction Type
- not applicable
- Domain (Eanna)
- Personnel management and labor allocation
- Format of the tablet
- portrait
- Sealings
- True
Content
- Paraphrase
Letter of the Governor of the Sealand (šākin māti) to Nabû-balāssu-iqbi (no appellative), emphatically reminding him not the be negligent about his work (lā šelû), and that he should do his work for five men. The sender stresses his great responsibility for the Akkadians and repeats that the recipient should not be negligent (lā šelû) (about his work).
Further Information
- created by
- Martina Schmidl, Sept. 8, 2026, 11:55 a.m.
- last updated by
- Martina Schmidl, Sept. 8, 2026, 1:11 p.m.
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- dubsar 3
- JCS 54 (2002), 99-123