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