Basic Metadata

NaBuCCo ID
196
Museum No.
BM 31416
CDLI P-Identifier
Place of issue
No place
Type and Content
Letters
Archive
Egibi/Nūr-Sîn
Dossier
None
Period
-
Year BCE
None
Editio princeps
Abraham 2004

Content

Paraphrase
Letter concerning an ilku-payment.
The sender of this letter informs B that C, a Babylonian who resides (ašābu) in D’s house in Bīt-Hahhuru, paid (it-ta-din [nadānu]) for his ilku-tax and B should not argue with him about it (itti PN dabābu). The name of the sender is not preserved. Jursa AOAT 414/1, 168 argues that he was most likely a rab hanšê-official responsible for the mobilisation of troops considering the fact that in the current letter he receives ilku-silver, i.e. silver that was earmarked for paying the soldiers who will actually perform C’s military service. The addressee is to be identified with Marduk-nāṣir-apli/Itti-Marduk-balāṭu, head of the Egibi family. C is probably identical with his namesake from the Ibni-ilu family, for whom see Wunsch2000032.

A=…; B=Širik (wr. mši-rik-ki) (=?Marduk-nāṣir-apli/Itti-Marduk-balāṭu//Egibi); C=Bēl-iddin (= Bēl-iddin/Sîn-ēreš//Ibni-ilu); D=Bēl-zēru-iddin
Transliteration
None
Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
no king. yy---dd

further information

Imported (Person, Date)
Kathleen Abraham (18/04/2016)
Legacy NaBuCCo ID
4354