Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 8689
- Museum No.
- NCBT 00055
- Primary Publication
- YOS 21 001
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P302108
- Place of issue
- No place
- Places mentioned on Tablet
- Uruk city
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Neo-Babylonian
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Nbk. yy-mm-dd
- Inferred date
- Nbk II Acc.-1 = c. 605 BCE (based on content, see dubsar 3: 299)
Digeanna
- Van Driel Files
- 11 a
- Text Form
- Letter (e.g. ṭuppi PN ana PN)
- Transaction Type
- not applicable
- Second-order accounting
- True
- Domain (Eanna)
- Higher-order management and policies
- Format of the tablet
- portrait
Content
- Paraphrase
Letter by the king (Nabû-kudurrī-uṣur = Nebuchadnezzar II) to Nabû-nādin-šumi (/Bēl-šumu-iškun//Dābibī, High Priest, šatammu) (no appellation), confirming that he received his message about Marduk-šumu-uṣur/Anu-aḫu-iddin and reminding the recipient not to be negligent (lā šelû) about the service (maṣṣartu) of the Eanna, the temple of the sender’s gods, and his work. In closing, he tells the recipient to pray for him to the goddesses of Uruk.
Further Information
- created by
- Martina Schmidl, Sept. 8, 2026, 1:05 p.m.
- last updated by
- Martina Schmidl, Sept. 8, 2026, 1:05 p.m.
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- dubsar 3