Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 8693
- Museum No.
- YBC 07455
- Primary Publication
- YOS 3 003
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P308399
- Place of issue
- No place
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Neo-Babylonian
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Nbk. yy-mm-dd
- Inferred date
- Nbk II Acc-7 = 605-597 BCE (based on prosopography, see dubsar 3: 303)
Digeanna
- Van Driel Files
- 11 a
- Text Form
- Letter (e.g. ṭuppi PN ana PN)
- Transaction Type
- not applicable
- Domain (Eanna)
- Cult and pertinent craft production
- Format of the tablet
- portrait
Content
- Paraphrase
Letter by the king (Nabû-kudurrī-uṣur = Nebuchadnezzar II) 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) (no appellation), telling them to quickly (ḫanṭiš) send the lamentation-priests (kalû) so that they arrive by the 5th of Addāru, as they need to perform the ḫarû-offering (ḫarû) on the 8th.
Further Information
- created by
- Martina Schmidl, Sept. 8, 2026, 1:54 p.m.
- last updated by
- Martina Schmidl, Sept. 8, 2026, 1:54 p.m.
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- dubsar 3
- Ebeling 1930-1934 (NBrU)
- Kleber 2008