Tablet BM 31409

NaBuCCo ID 190
Museum No. BM 31409
CDLI P-Identifier
Place of issue
Type and content Receipt
Archive
Period Each
Year BCE 498
Editio princeps Dar. 572
Paraphrase Receipt of payment for salaries and rations from the head of the Egibi family.
A receives payment (eṭēru) from B for the salary (idū) and rations (kurummatu) of C1, C2 and C3 who went* for 3 months to Elam. The exact amount of silver received is probably lost in the broken part at the beginning of the tablet. Names of 3 witnesses and the scribe.

*lit. who (went/will go) to (adi) Elam.

A=Nergal-ēṭir/Kalbaya//Šumu-libši; B=Širku/Iddinaya//Egibi (=Marduk-nāṣir-apli/Itti-Marduk-balāṭu//Egibi); C1=Nabû-iddin/m..., brother of C2; C2=Zitti-Nabû/m..., brother of C1; C3=Sūqaya/Kalbaya
Transliteration Transliteration available on Achemenet
Babylonian Date (year-month-day): Dar. yy-IX-dd