Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 8985
- Museum No.
- YBC 08868
- Primary Publication
- YOS 3 131
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P309667
- Place of issue
- No place
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Neo-Babylonian
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Nbk. yy-mm-dd
- Inferred date
- c. Nbk II 15-20 = 590-584 BCE (based on prosopography, see dubsar 3: 395f.)
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)
- Animal husbandry
- Format of the tablet
- portrait
Content
- Paraphrase
Letter of Marduk-šāpik-zēri (at the time of writing future High Priest, šatammu) to Nabû-aḫḫē-iddin (High Priest, šatammu), assuring him that everything the recipient wrote about is happening in a pleasing manner. The sender urges the recipient to take the prize bull of the (City) Governor (of Uruk, šākin ṭēmi) with him.
Further Information
- created by
- Martina Schmidl, Oct. 22, 2026, 8:34 a.m.
- last updated by
- Martina Schmidl, Oct. 22, 2026, 8:34 a.m.
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- dubsar 3
- Ebeling 1930-1934 (NBrU)