Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 8907
- Museum No.
- HE 601
- Primary Publication
- DCEPHE 601
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P433080
- Place of issue
- No place
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Neo-Babylonian
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Nbk. yy-mm-dd
- Inferred date
- Nbk II 14-19 = 591-585 BCE (based on prosopography, see dubsar 3: 365)
Digeanna
- Van Driel Files
- 11 a
- Text Form
- Letter (e.g. ṭuppi PN ana PN)
- Transaction Type
- not applicable
- Domain (Eanna)
- Personnel management and labor allocation
- Format of the tablet
- landscape
Content
- Paraphrase
Letter of Innin-zēru-ušabši (possibly /Balāssu) to Nabû-aḫḫē-iddin (High Priest, šatammu), “his lord”, informing him that he only received 80 workers and that there is no chief of ten (rab ešerti) with them. The sender will therefore employ130 hired workers. The sender emphatically requests 100 workers and a chief of ten (rab ešerti), warning that the work is mostly done by hired workers, not by the workmen linked to the temple.
Further Information
- created by
- Martina Schmidl, Oct. 12, 2026, 1:22 p.m.
- last updated by
- Martina Schmidl, Oct. 12, 2026, 1:22 p.m.
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- dubsar 3