Business letters
Some Babylonian letters of the Second Empire are to be found in the great collections published by Strassmaier. For the most part they are of a business nature, asking for some payment to be made or some object sent on.
Thus,[948] one reads:
Order for seed
Note from Nabû-shum-lîshir to Bêl-uballiṭ and Ki ... my brothers. Bêl and Nabû decree the well-being of my brothers. Two GUR of dates to Bêl-nâṣir, two GUR to Shamash-pir'-uṣur, from the store for seed let my brothers give. Adar the ninth, year eleven, Nabonidus, King of Babylon.
Or,[949]
Another for supplies
Note from Shamash-erba to Ḥâr-ibnî, my brother: When I send Shamash-uballiṭ to thy presence, do thou send ninety ḲA of meal by his hand. Verily thou knowest. Besides the twelve ḲA of meal before is this. Adar the thirteenth.
A somewhat longer but imperfect letter[950] reads:
Explanation of the filling of an order