Tablet BM 31227

NaBuCCo ID 2128
Museum No. BM 31227
CDLI P-Identifier
Place of issue
Type and content Receipt
Archive
Period Each
Year BCE 497
Editio princeps Abraham 2004 042
Paraphrase Receipt of an ilku-payment by the head of the Egibi family. Impost related to a bridge.
A receives payment (mahāru) from* B for the ilku-tax till the end of Addar (XII) of the 25th year of Darius. The tax is due from him for renting? (šá i-da-šú [idū]) the bridge (gišru) of Babylon which falls under the responsibility of (ina qātē) C. The parties to the contract have taken one copy of the document each. Names of 4 witnesses and the scribe.

*l. 7 [ina ŠU].II (?).

A=Širku/Iddinaya//Egibi (=Marduk-nāṣir-apli/Itti-Marduk-balāṭu//Egibi); B=Bēl-asûa/Nabû-iddin//Bābūtu; C=Bēl-ēṭir (or -upahhir)
Transliteration None
Babylonian Date (year-month-day): Dar. yy---dd