Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 8701
- Museum No.
- NBC 01100
- Primary Publication
- BIN 1 053
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P291447
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Neo-Babylonian
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Nbk. yy-mm-dd
- Inferred date
- Nbk II 15-20 = 590-584 BCE (based on prosopography, see dubsar 3: 314)
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
- Format of the tablet
- portrait
Navico
Content
- Paraphrase
Letter of Mušēzib-Bēl (/Nabû-zēru-iddin//Erībšu, blacksmith, oblate?, širku?) and Ibni-Ištar (/Bēl-upaḫḫir//Nagāru, blacksmith) to the High Priest (šatammu), informing him that the service (maṣṣartu) of the temple is going well. The letter mentions a bow-case (tillu) in a broken section and something that should arrive quickly (ḫanṭiš). The senders emphatically request 10 boats with dung cakes (putru) and tumbu-wood (tumbu) because they are expensive where the senders are. They also tell the recipient not to be negligent (lā šelû) about a delivery of baked bricks and supplies (tērsītu). They only have 13 corvée workers and request silver should the recipient have any. They stress the matter of fuel for the kilns twice more (lā šelû), and inquire about the well-being of Nabû-bān-aḫi.
Further Information
- created by
- Martina Schmidl, Sept. 8, 2026, 2:56 p.m.
- last updated by
- Martina Schmidl, Sept. 8, 2026, 3:18 p.m.
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- dubsar 3
- Ebeling 1930-1934 (NBrU)