Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 8903
- Museum No.
- YBC 11253
- Primary Publication
- YOS 21 074
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P311430
- Place of issue
- No place
- Regional setting
- Nippur city
- Places mentioned on Tablet
- Upiya
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Neo-Babylonian
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Nbk. 14-mm-dd
- Inferred date
- c. Nbk II 14 = c. 591 BCE (based on content, see dubsar 3: 360)
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)
- Higher-order management and policies
- Format of the tablet
- portrait
Content
- Paraphrase
Letter of Nabû-ērēš and Nergal-ašarēd to Nergal-ušallim, “their lord”, emphatically requesting news and instructions from the recipient who has arrived in (tp)Upiya/Opis. They advise the sender not to ignore Šamaš-erība. The senders stress their personal connection to the recipient and request a letter from him as well as one from the High Priest (šatammu).
Further Information
- created by
- Martina Schmidl, Oct. 12, 2026, 1:02 p.m.
- last updated by
- Martina Schmidl, Oct. 12, 2026, 1:02 p.m.
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- dubsar 3