Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 8702
- Museum No.
- NBC 04933
- Primary Publication
- YOS 21 128
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P297955
- 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 15-20 = 590-584 BCE (based on prosopography, see dubsar 3: 316)
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 silver
- Format of the tablet
- landscape
Navico
- Theme
- Labour tasks & work status
- Oblate/Slave Descriptor
- collective designation
Content
- Paraphrase
Letter or Ninurta-šarru-uṣur (Royal Resident, qīpu) to Mušēzib-Bēl (/Nabû-zēru-iddin//Erībšu, blacksmith, oblate?, širku?) and Ibni-Ištar (/Bēl-upaḫḫir//Nagāru, blacksmith), “his brothers”, mentioning a previous talk, iron and the work (dullu) of the temple in broken context. The sender requests silver for iron qappatu-tools. He knows that Nabû-aḫḫē-iddin (/Nergal-ušallim//Nūr-Sîn, High Priest, šatammu) is going to Uruk, and complains about him and the Temple Scribe (ṭupšar bīti) leaving their posts. The sender quotes a request the recipients had made, that travel provisions (ṣidītu) for the workers to go to Uruk are lacking, as is silver for the slaves (lamutānu), and states that he withheld this from them.
Further Information
- created by
- Martina Schmidl, Sept. 8, 2026, 3 p.m.
- last updated by
- Martina Schmidl, Sept. 8, 2026, 3 p.m.
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- dubsar 3