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