Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 8695
- Museum No.
- YBC 07452
- Primary Publication
- YOS 3 005
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P308396
- Place of issue
- No place
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Neo-Babylonian
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Nbk. yy-mm-dd
- Inferred date
- Nbk II 10-20 = 595-584 BCE (based on prosopography and content, see dubsar 3: 304)
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
- Formatting remarks
- Reverse not fully inscribed
- Format of the tablet
- portrait
Content
- Paraphrase
Letter by the king (Nabû-kudurrī-uṣur = Nebuchadnezzar II) to Ninurta-šarru-uṣur (Royal Resident, qīpu), remnidng him not to be negligent (lā šelû) about the service (maṣṣartu) of the Eanna, the schedule for regular offerings (ginû) and allocating material for the foundation of the temple, telling him to get everything ready for the sender's arrival for prayer, and that he will do everything so that it will be perfect.
Further Information
- created by
- Martina Schmidl, Sept. 8, 2026, 2 p.m.
- last updated by
- Martina Schmidl, Sept. 8, 2026, 2 p.m.
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- Beaulieu 2003
- dubsar 3
- Ebeling 1930-1934 (NBrU)
- Kleber 2008