diff --git a/doc/changes/unreleased.md b/doc/changes/unreleased.md
index 88d02ee7..a14290ed 100644
--- a/doc/changes/unreleased.md
+++ b/doc/changes/unreleased.md
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 # Unreleased
 
+## Bug Fixing
+
+* #262: Fixed a wrong type interpretation in `path.write`. The chunks are now passed as a Sequence, not Iterable.
+
 ## Internal
 
 * #260: Re-locked transitive dependencies urllib3, filelock, and Werkzeug and update to exasol-toolbox 4.0.0
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diff --git a/exasol/bucketfs/_path.py b/exasol/bucketfs/_path.py
index 5af0e8e5..3fca590f 100644
--- a/exasol/bucketfs/_path.py
+++ b/exasol/bucketfs/_path.py
@@ -6,12 +6,12 @@
     ByteString,
     Generator,
     Iterable,
+    Sequence,
 )
 from enum import (
     Enum,
     auto,
 )
-from io import IOBase
 from pathlib import (
     PurePath,
     PureWindowsPath,
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ def read(self, chunk_size: int = 8192) -> Iterable[ByteString]:
             IsADirectoryError: if the pathlike object points to a directory.
         """
 
-    def write(self, data: ByteString | BinaryIO | Iterable[ByteString]) -> None:
+    def write(self, data: ByteString | BinaryIO | Sequence[ByteString]) -> None:
         """
         Writes data to this path.
 
@@ -353,12 +353,10 @@ def is_file(self) -> bool:
     def read(self, chunk_size: int = 8192) -> Iterable[ByteString]:
         return self._bucket_api.download(str(self._path), chunk_size)
 
-    def write(self, data: ByteString | BinaryIO | Iterable[ByteString]) -> None:
-        if (
-            not isinstance(data, IOBase)
-            and isinstance(data, Iterable)
-            and all(isinstance(chunk, ByteString) for chunk in data)
-        ):
+    def write(self, data: ByteString | BinaryIO | Sequence[ByteString]) -> None:
+        if (not isinstance(data, ByteString)) and isinstance(data, Sequence):
+            if not all(isinstance(chunk, ByteString) for chunk in data):
+                raise ValueError("The file chunks must be byte strings")
             data = b"".join(data)
         self._bucket_api.upload(str(self._path), data)
 
diff --git a/test/integration/test_path.py b/test/integration/test_path.py
index 3aa9e621..23a1d5d6 100644
--- a/test/integration/test_path.py
+++ b/test/integration/test_path.py
@@ -54,6 +54,29 @@ def test_write_read_back(backend_aware_bucketfs_params, children_poem):
     assert data_back == children_poem
 
 
+def test_write_chunks_read_back(
+    backend_aware_bucketfs_params, children_poem, classic_poem
+):
+
+    base_path = bfs.path.build_path(**backend_aware_bucketfs_params)
+    file_name = "test_bucket_path/test_write_read_back/two_poems.txt"
+    poem_path = base_path / file_name
+
+    poem_path.write([children_poem, classic_poem])
+    data_back = b"".join(poem_path.read(20))
+    assert data_back == children_poem + classic_poem
+
+
+def test_write_chunks_error(backend_aware_bucketfs_params):
+
+    base_path = bfs.path.build_path(**backend_aware_bucketfs_params)
+    file_name = "test_bucket_path/test_write_read_back/data_error.txt"
+    file_path = base_path / file_name
+
+    with pytest.raises(ValueError, match="byte strings"):
+        file_path.write([b"part1", "part2"])
+
+
 def test_write_read_back_tar_gz(backend_aware_bucketfs_params, children_poem, tmp_path):
 
     # Write the content into a tar.gz file