Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 1130
- Museum No.
- BM 30976
- Primary Publication
- Cyr. 325
- Place of issue
- Babylon city
- Archive
- Egibi/Nūr-Sîn
- Period
- Early Achaemenid
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- XXX. yy-XII-dd
Content
- Paraphrase
- Apprenticeship contract
A gives (nadānu) voluntarily his slave C to the stone cutter (purkullu) B, who is a slave (qallu) of the crownprince (mār šarri) Cambyses, during 4 years to learn the craft of stone cutter (purkullūtu).
B will teach C the craft of stone cutter. When he fails to do so, he will pay 20 shekels of silver (to the slave or his owner). When he teaches him in the 4 years the craft, … (broken off).
A will provide (katāmu D-stem) C with clothes (muṣiptu).
Names of 2 witnesses and the scribe.
At the end of the document, after the list of witnesses, place and date, there is a fragmentary line mentioning 5 shekels of silver, the month Nisan (I) and the verb nadānu.
A = Itti-Marduk-balāṭu/Nabû-ahhē-iddin//Egibi; B = Hašdāya; C = Gûzu-ina-Bēl-aṣbat - Transliteration
- Transliteration available on Achemenet
Further Information
- Type and Content
- Apprenticeships
- Imported (Person, Date)
- Kathleen Abraham 14/04/2017
- Legacy NaBuCCo ID
- 7285
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- Cyr.