Basic Metadata

NaBuCCo ID
2077
Museum No.
BM 30822
Primary Publication
Dar. 541
Place of issue
Bīt-ṭāb-Bēl
Places mentioned on Tablet
Bīt-ṭāb-Bēl
Archive
Egibi/Nūr-Sîn
Period
Early Achaemenid
Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
XXX. yy-III-dd
Date BCE
500

Content

Paraphrase
Promissory note to pay a debt of barley, silver, and browned ghee to the head of the Egibi family. Silver had been transferred to the debtor to pay off his creditor. Return of the promissory note for previous debts that were paid back.
B should deliver the full amount (gamru) of 10 kor of barley that are due from him to A at the end of Simān (III) of Darius' 22nd year in one instalment in the creditor's house in Šahrīnu and according to the latter's measure. He will also deliver the 10 shekels of white, medium quality of silver and the one container (nispu) of browned ghee (himētu qulītu) that are due from him. A has promptly returned the previous promissory note (u'iltu) for 12 kor of barley, capital amount (qaqqadu), 1 object the nature of which is broken*, and browned ghee which were owed to his slave (C) by B, to B (târu D-nadānu). The indebted 10 shekels of white silver are those which have been given (nadānu, G Stat.) to D, creditor (rašû) of B. Names of 8 witnesses and the scribe.

*1-en […].

A=Širku/Iddinaya//Egibi (=Marduk-nāṣir-apli/Itti-Marduk-balāṭu//Egibi); B=Ibnaya/Nergal-zēru-ibni; C=Madān-aplu-iddin; D=Iddin-Nabû
Transliteration
Transliteration available on Achemenet

Further Information

Type and Content
Promissory notes ina muẖẖi
Imported (Person, Date)
Kathleen Abraham (18/04/2016)
Legacy NaBuCCo ID
4449
Mentioned in the following publication(s)
Dar.