Basic Metadata

NaBuCCo ID
2260
Museum No.
BM 31869
Primary Publication
Dar. 472
Place of issue
Babylon city
Archive
Egibi/Nūr-Sîn
Period
Early Achaemenid
Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
XXX. yy-X-dd
Date BCE
504

Content

Paraphrase
Receipt of silver paid on behalf of the head of the Egibi family. Partial payment of a debt.
A receives* 3 minas and 45 shekels of white, medium quality silver, of which 1/8 is alloy from B, paid on behalf of (ana muhhi) C. This silver is part of (ina) a larger claim (rašûtu) that A holds against C. The parties to the contract have taken one copy of the document each. The list of witnesses is broken off at the beginning, but is preserved in the duplicate document BM31869 (=Dar 472).

*Verb of receipt is broken.

A=Šaddinnu/Madān-ahhē-iddin//Šigûa; B=Nidintu/Kabtia//Ir'anni; C=Širku/Iddinaya//Egibi (=Marduk-nāṣir-apli/Itti-Marduk-balāṭu//Egibi)
Transliteration
Transliteration available on Achemenet

Further Information

Type and Content
Receipts
Imported (Person, Date)
Kathleen Abraham (18/04/2016)
Legacy NaBuCCo ID
4445
Mentioned in the following publication(s)
Dar.