Basic Metadata

NaBuCCo ID
1088
Museum No.
BM 31341
Primary Publication
Camb. 245
Place of issue
Babylon city
Archive
Egibi/Nūr-Sîn
Period
Early Achaemenid
Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
XXX. yy-VI-dd

Content

Paraphrase
Apprenticeship contract
A gives voluntarily his slave C, a tailor (kāṣiru), to B to learn the craft of tailoring lamhuššu-garments (kāṣirūt lamhuššûti).
B will teach C the craft of the tailor (kāṣirūtu) for 2 years and 3 months.
A will pay (eṭēru) C 2 kor of flatbread (kusīpu) and will provide (katāmu D-stem) him till the end of the 2 years and 3 months with clothes (muṣiptu). They each took a copy of the document (šaṭāru). Names of 4 witnesses and the scribe.
 
A = Itti-Marduk-balāṭu/Nabû-ahhē-iddin//Egibi; B = Iddia/Ki-Sîn; C = name broken off
Transliteration
Transliteration available on Achemenet

Further Information

Type and Content
Apprenticeships
Imported (Person, Date)
Kathleen Abraham 14/04/2017
Legacy NaBuCCo ID
7286
Mentioned in the following publication(s)
Camb.