Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 1946
- Museum No.
- BM 31393
- Primary Publication
- Abraham 2004 046
- Place of issue
- Babylon city
- Archive
- Egibi/Nūr-Sîn
- Period
- Early Achaemenid
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- XXX. yy-VIII-dd
Content
- Paraphrase
- Receipt of barley by a royal official from the head of the Egibi family. Payment for transport costs. Undertaking to register the receipt in the accounts of the Governor of Babylon.
A, a man from Imbuka (lúim-bu-ku-a-a) courtier/clerk? of the [...]*, receives (mahāru) [3];2.0 kor of barley from B to cover the costs of transporting (gimru) a broken amount of either barley or dates(**). He acts as proxy (našpartu) for C, Governor of Babylon, and should register his receipt in the latter’s account; then he should give proof of it to B (ušuzzu -nadānu). The barley (or dates) that needs to be transported are D’s income from the collection of fixed rent (sūtu). Names of 4 witnesses and the scribe.
*lúS[AG? ...] šá lúšá-di-emeš šálú┌x┐ [(x)]. Or read lúse-pir-ri] šá etc. ?
** 30[+x barley/dates].
A= Rušundāta (or: Rušunpāta), (sepīru?); B= Širiktu/Iddinaya//Egibi (=Marduk-nāṣir-apli/Itti-Marduk-balāṭu//Egibi); C= Gūzānu, (šākin ṭēmi of Babylon); D= Bēl-ittannu
Further Information
- Type and Content
- Receipts
- Imported (Person, Date)
- Kathleen Abraham (18/04/2016)
- Legacy NaBuCCo ID
- 4353
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- Abraham 2004