Basic Metadata

NaBuCCo ID
2358
Museum No.
BM 31118
Primary Publication
Abraham 2004 037
Place of issue
Babylon city
Archive
Egibi/Nūr-Sîn
Period
Early Achaemenid
Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
XXX. yy---dd
Date BCE
497

Content

Paraphrase
Receipt of a hireling? by the head of the Egibi family. Hired for six days a month during six months from March/April till August/September.
A receives a hireling?* from B for 6 days a month, from Nisan of the 25th year till the end of Ulūl of the 25th year. The text doesn’t specify the kind of work that the hireling? should do. The parties to the contract have taken one copy of the document each. Names of 3 witnesses and the scribe.

*[x (x)?] x.

A=Širik/Iddinaya//Egibi (=Marduk-nāṣir-apli/Itti-Marduk-balāṭu//Egibi); B=Bēl-iddin/Zēria//Rab-banê

Further Information

Type and Content
Receipts
Imported (Person, Date)
Kathleen Abraham (18/04/2016)
Legacy NaBuCCo ID
4344
Mentioned in the following publication(s)
Abraham 2004