Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 8707
- Museum No.
- YBC 11373
- Primary Publication
- YOS 21 065
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P311548
- Regional setting
- Upiya
- Places mentioned on Tablet
- Babylon city
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Neo-Babylonian
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Nbk. 14-mm-dd
- Inferred date
- c. Nbk II 14 = c. 591 BCE(Kleber 2008: 33, note 129)
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
- Formatting remarks
- Reverse not fully inscribed.
- Format of the tablet
- portrait
Content
- Paraphrase
Letter of Nabû-aḫḫē-iddin (/Nergal-ušallim//Nūr-Sîn, High Priest, šatammu) to Nabû-bān-aḫi (/Ibnāya//Ekur-zākir, scribe, ṭupšarru), “his brother”, reminding him twice not to be negligent (lā šelû), about his work (dullu) and barley and ordering him to launch (sakāpu) and send two boats filled with tumbu-wood (tumbu) to Babylon.
Further Information
- created by
- Martina Schmidl, Sept. 8, 2026, 3:17 p.m.
- last updated by
- Martina Schmidl, Oct. 7, 2026, 1:53 p.m.
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- dubsar 3
- Kleber 2008