Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 98
- Name
- Šangû-Šamaš B
- Siglum according to GMTR 1
- 7.11.2.12
- (Assumed) place of origin
- Sippar
Archive description
The protagonists of this four generational family archive are Iqīšāya/Šamaš-nāṣir (in debt notes), Etel-pî-Šamaš/Šamaš-šumu-līšir (one debt note, one dowry text), his son Iqīša-Marduk, a scribe, and his grandsons, Iddin-Bēl/Iqīša-Marduk and his brother Ea-(m)udammiq(= Damqia), prebendary gardeners (rab-banê). There are at least thirty-three tablets (including three duplicates) (1 Nbk-36 Dar), currently in London, with strays in the former Revillout collection, the library of the University of Prague, and the Gothenburg City Museum. The archive contains some family documents, but no title deeds. Iqīša-Marduk/Etel-pî-Šamaš managed the family’s date gardens and owned a house and at least a temple enterer’s and a brewer’s prebend. He was also active as an (unsuccessful) entrepreneur collecting house rents for Ebabbar. Iddin-Bēl is notable for one, maybe two tablets attesting payments of staples to royal institutions, evidence for the taxation of prebendaries. Tabnēa/Iqīša-Marduk was married to a woman of the Šigûa family from Uruk, heavily involved in prebendary brewing. There may be remnants of an archive of yet another branch of the family. The chief protagonist is the šangû Sippar Mušallim-Marduk/Šamaš-šumu-ukīn. As in the case of the Ša-nāšišu šangûs mentioned above, there is a possibility that these are actually official texts.