Basic Metadata

NaBuCCo ID
2264
Museum No.
BM 33112
CDLI P-Identifier
Place of issue
Babylon city
Type and Content
Receipts
Archive
Egibi/Nūr-Sîn
Dossier
None
Period
Each
Year BCE
497
Editio princeps
Abraham 2004

Content

Paraphrase
Receipt of barley by a (royal) official from the head of the Egibi family. Payment for transport costs. By order of the Governor of Babylon.
A, clerk (sepīru) appointed over the female flour millers (ša qēmēti), receives (mahāru) 20 kor of barley from B to cover the costs of transporting (gimru) 200 kor of barley "of the estate' (makkūru). He acts by order of (ina qibi) C, Governor of Babylon. The barley that needs to be transported is income from the collection of fixed rent (sūtu), due to D1 and D2 (without official titles). Names of 5 witnesses and the scribe.

A= Mamûzu/Ṭābia, (sepīru)B= Šišku/Iddinaya//Egibi (=Marduk-nāṣir-apli/Itti-Marduk-balāṭu//Egibi); C= Gūzānu, (šākin ṭēmi of Babylon); D1= Iddin-Bēl; D2= Tanda
Transliteration
None
Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
Dar. yy-V-dd

further information

Imported (Person, Date)
Kathleen Abraham (18/04/2016)
Legacy NaBuCCo ID
4381