Archive Rabâ-ša-Ninurta

NaBuCCo ID 44
Name Rabâ-ša-Ninurta
Paragraph 7.1.2.9
Provenance Babylon
Archive description

The protagonists of this (discarded?) family archive are all sons of Šamaš-iddin(= Iddia)//Rabâ-ša-Ninurta: Erība-Marduk, Nūr-Bēl-lūmur(= Nūrea) and Tukulti-Bēl. It consists of sixteen tablets, mostly debt notes and receipts, which with one exception in Brussels can be found in the British Museum’s 1880-11-2, 1882-7-4 and Sp II and III collections (4 Nbn-­26 Dar). The group contains a few (damaged) title deeds referring to divisions of urban property. Also Nūrea’s daughter Ubārtu and her dowry are mentioned.

The family owned arable land in Hallat in the vicinity of Babylon or Borsippa, probably part of a regularly structured hanšû estate which also served as a basis of taxation and cultivated by share croppers, and houses in Babylon and in Cutha. The background of the silver debt notes, in which Erība-Marduk and Nūr-Bēl-lūmur always are the debtors, cannot be reconstructed.

Associated tablets