He is perhaps best known for the literary work generally known as the letter from Nabi-Enlil to Iter-pisha formerly designated letter from Iter-pisha to a deity, when its contents were less well understood. It is extant in seven fragmentary manuscripts[i 46] and seems to be a petition to the king from a subject who has fallen on hard times.[49] It is a 24-line composition that had become a belle letter used in scribal education during the subsequent Old Babylonian period.[50]