Tablet BM 30961

NaBuCCo ID 1994
Museum No. BM 30961
CDLI P-Identifier
Place of issue
Type and content Receipt
Archive
Period Each
Year BCE 496
Editio princeps Abraham 2004 029
Paraphrase Receipt of silver from the head of the Egibi family. Purchase price for a boat. Prompt return of the promissory note about the boat to the head of the Egibi family.
A receives (mahāru) 4 minas and 10 shekels of white, medium quality silver, of which 1/8 is alloy, the price of his boat, from B according to his promissory note (u’iltu). He has returned (târu D-nadānu) the document (u’iltu) about the boat that had been issued (rakistu), sealed (kaniktu) and entrusted (paqdu) to C, to B. Names of 5 witnesses and the scribe.

A=Nabû-aplu-iddin/Lâbāši//Nūr-Papsukkal; B=Šišku/Iddinaya//Egibi (=Marduk-nāṣir-apli/Itti-Marduk-balāṭu//Egibi); C=Niqūdu
Transliteration None
Babylonian Date (year-month-day): Dar. yy-VI-dd