Basic Metadata

NaBuCCo ID
2168
Museum No.
BM 30273
CDLI P-Identifier
Place of issue
Ālu-ša-kî-Bēl
Type and Content
Commercial partnerships
Archive
Egibi/Nūr-Sîn
Dossier
None
Period
Each
Year BCE
508
Editio princeps
Dar.

Content

Paraphrase
Establishment of a business partnership. Head of the Egibi family is the investor.
The present record, formulated as a standard promissory note, documents a business partnership agreement. A invested 51 kor of dates, income from the collection of tithes (ešru) for the temple of Bēl, in a business partnership (harrānu) with B. The latter owes him the dates (ša A ina muhhi B). The partners agree that they will share equally (ahi zittu akālu) in the profits (utru) that B makes (epēšu) of the dates in or out of town. B assumes warranty for the capital amount of the dates. The partnership is to last three years. Names of 7 witnesses and the scribe.

A=Marduk-nāṣir-apli/Itti-Marduk-balāṭu//Egibi; B=Šamaš-ina-tēšê-ēṭir/Šamaš-iddin//Šamaš-abārī
Transliteration
Transliteration available on Achemenet
Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
Dar. yy-X-dd

further information

Imported (Person, Date)
Kathleen Abraham (18/04/2016)
Legacy NaBuCCo ID
4431