Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 1887
- Museum No.
- VAT 386
- Primary Publication
- VS 6 148
- Place of issue
- Babylon city
- Archive
- Nappāhu
- Period
- Early Achaemenid
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- XXX. yy-I-dd
- Date BCE
- 495
Content
- Paraphrase
- Contract for supply of timber: B is to deliver to A 3 good-quality beams (gušūru) at the end of Ayyāru (II) at the dam of Kār-Tašmētu. These 3 beams comprise 2 good-quality, thick (šapṣu, šepṭūtu), trimmed (gaṣṣūtu) beams of similar girth (tāpalu), 2/3 cubit in width, one of which is 10 cubits long for a gate-support(?) (bāb išdu), and the other, a middle beam (qablû) 5 cubits long, plus 1 hewn(?) (hubû) beam 8 cubits long. A is to pay B 0;1 kor of dates. 3 witnesses and the scribe (Ea-iddin/Nabû-ahhē-iddin//Šigûa).
A = Šellebu/Iddin-Nabû//Nappāhu; B = Libluṭ/Nabû-šar-ahhēšu//Damiqu
Further Information
- Type and Content
- Purchases
- Imported (Person, Date)
- Matthias Adelhofer (22/02/17)
- Legacy NaBuCCo ID
- 8484
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- VS 6