Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 8704
- Museum No.
- YBC 11330
- Primary Publication
- YOS 21 140
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P311506
- 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: 318)
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)
- Storehouse management and allocation of miscellaneous goods
- Format of the tablet
- portrait
Navico
- Theme
- Labour tasks & work status
- Oblate/Slave Descriptor
- oblate
Content
- Paraphrase
Letter of Šamaš-erība to Mušēzib-Bēl (/Nabû-zēru-iddin//Erībšu, blacksmith, oblate?, širku?) and Ibni-Ištar (/Bēl-upaḫḫir//Nagāru, blacksmith), “his brothers”, complaining that his previous message, a demand for a bow-case (tillu) for the king, was neither answered nor heeded. He urgently (ḫanṭiš) demands a bow-case (tillu) and cotton, threatening to turn to the king (amāt šarri) about this. The sender requests a writing board (lē’û) containing information about oblates (širku) be obtained and read. In a broken passage at the end, the sender tells them that Nabû-nāṣir-apli should pay silver to the chiefs of ten (rab ešērti) and that they should facilitate this (ḫarrānu ana šēpē šakānu).
Further Information
- created by
- Martina Schmidl, Sept. 8, 2026, 3:08 p.m.
- last updated by
- Martina Schmidl, Sept. 8, 2026, 3:08 p.m.
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- dubsar 3