Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 193
- Museum No.
- BM 30787
- CDLI P-Identifier
- Place of issue
- Babylon city
- Type and Content
- Hiring
- Archive
- Egibi/Nūr-Sîn
- Dossier
- None
- Period
- Each
- Year BCE
- 517
- Editio princeps
- Dar.
Content
- Paraphrase
- Labour contract to sail a boat to Babylon as part of the kanšu-service. Salary to be paid by the head of the Egibi family.
A shall sail for a monthly salary of 8 shekels in the boat that belongs to B (ina eleppi alāku). It is part of (B's?) kanšu service for the King. B shall give 0.1.1.3 kor royal flour!?(qēmu)*, cress (sahlû) and oil (šamnu) to A each month. The document describes in detail what A can and cannot do with the boat, but the passage is fragmentary. Apparently, he may (or: shall) sail to Babylon and Babylonians are said to be on the boat. Another fragmentary clause stipulates that "from the 10th of Simān (III) [PN] [...] shall g[ive]." Names of 3 witnesses and the scribe.
*Wr. KI.LÁ (rd. qí-me!?) ša šarri.
A=Bulṭaya/Habaṣīru//Rē'i-alpi; B=Marduk-nāṣir-apli (=Marduk-nāṣir-apli/Itti-Marduk-balāṭu//Egibi) - Transliteration
- Transliteration available on Achemenet
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Dar. yy-III-dd
further information
- Imported (Person, Date)
- Kathleen Abraham (18/04/2016)
- Legacy NaBuCCo ID
- 4405