Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 8678
- Museum No.
- AO 08907
- Primary Publication
- TCL 9 118
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P386788
- Place of issue
- No place
- Regional setting
- Sealand
- Places mentioned on Tablet
- 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: 288)
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
- Formatting remarks
- Reverse partly uninscribed.
- Format of the tablet
- portrait
Navico
- Theme
- Labour tasks & work status
- Mobility
- Oblate/Slave Descriptor
- collective designation
Content
- Paraphrase
Letter of Ṣillaya to Nādinu (= Nabû-nādin-šumi/Bēl-šumu-iškun//Dābibī, High Priest, šatammu), “his brother” about slaves (lamutānu), the recipient’s servants (ardu) who are digging – the recipient should give them 5 iron spades. Until the spades arrive in the Sealand, the slaves should not be interrupted in their work.
Further Information
- created by
- Martina Schmidl, Sept. 8, 2026, 12:09 p.m.
- last updated by
- Martina Schmidl, Sept. 8, 2026, 1:09 p.m.
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- dubsar 3
- Ebeling 1930-1934 (NBrU)