Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 1948
- Museum No.
- BM 30591
- Primary Publication
- Abraham 2004 016
- Place of issue
- Babylon city
- Archive
- Egibi/Nūr-Sîn
- Period
- Early Achaemenid
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- XXX. yy-VII-dd
- Date BCE
- 487
Content
- Paraphrase
- Promissory note for barley. Payment for transport costs due to a courtier from the head of the Egibi family.
B should deliver 24;3.2 kor of barley that are due from him to A, a courtier (ša rēš šarri), to cover the costs for the transport (gimru) of barley. Delivery is due in Abu (V). The document specifies the kind of transport at stake but the passage is fragmentary*. Names of 5 witnesses and the scribe. Among the witnesses: a man with the Iranian name Bagadata/Mitrata; the courtier Bēl-ušallim (ša rēš šarri); and Mauzzu/Ṭabia (who has no title here, but cf. BM33112). The scribe is B himself.
* transport of barley [...] which Širku (=Marduk-nāṣir-apli/Itti-Marduk-balāṭu//Egibi) from (ina qate) [...].
A= Nabû-šumu-ibni, courtier (ša rēš šarri); B=Širku (aka Marduk-nāṣir-apli) (/Iddināya//Egibi).
Further Information
- Type and Content
- Promissory notes ina muẖẖi
- Imported (Person, Date)
- Kathleen Abraham (18/04/2016)
- Legacy NaBuCCo ID
- 4321
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- Abraham 2004