Basic Metadata

NaBuCCo ID
2200
Museum No.
BM 41416
CDLI P-Identifier
Place of issue
Agmatānu
Type and Content
Promissory notes ina muẖẖi
Archive
Egibi/Nūr-Sîn
Dossier
None
Period
Each
Year BCE
None
Editio princeps
Cyr.

Content

Paraphrase
Promissory note for silver and firewood. Interest to be paid in dates and fixation of exchange rate.
B owes 1 ½ minas of medium quality silver, of which one-eighth is alloy to A. He should pay 2 sūtu of dates (as interest) for each shekel of (indebted) silver. The dates are to be paid in Arahsamna (VIII) according to the exchange rate (mahīru) of Babylon. He should also provide 30 loads of firewood (hu-ṣa-bi!(HU) [huṣābu]). Archival evidence shows that B was travelling in Iran at the time this document was drafted. Witnesses.
 
A = Tattannu/Mušallim-Marduk//Imbušia; B = Itti-Marduk-balāṭu/Nabû-ahhē-iddin//Egibi
Transliteration
Transliteration available on Achemenet
Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
Cyr. yy-VI-dd

further information

Imported (Person, Date)
Kathleen Abraham (07/01/2017)
Legacy NaBuCCo ID
7787