Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 266
- Museum No.
- MNB 1133
- CDLI P-Identifier
- Place of issue
- Bīt-šar-Bābili
- Type and Content
- Deposits
- Archive
- Egibi/Nūr-Sîn
- Dossier
- None
- Period
- NB
- Year BCE
- 539
- Editio princeps
- TCL 12
Content
- Paraphrase
- Restitution of escrow after the buyer's death.
The document concerns 11 minas and 18 shekels of silver kept in a sealed leather bag (himtu kaniktu), the balance (rīhtu) of the purchase price of C's house which A bought. The buyer entrusted this silver to B, as an escrow (?) (tekûtu) should a complaint from a creditor (rāšû) arise about the sold house. Before A's death, there was no creditor to claim (the content of) the money bag.[...] 4 years after the deaths of A, the buyer, and B, the person who was in charge of the leather bag with the silver, C approached A's heir (D), but D did not agree to hand it over to him without the consent of the men in charge (rābû, lit. “big ones") and the judges (dayyānu). [...] They appeared before men in charge and the judges and they asked E, the bishop (šatammu) of Esagila: "Is there a claim of the temple against the silver kept in this bag?" E answered: "I do not know whether the temple or anyone else has a claim on it“. Therefore, D has given the sealed leather bag to C, in the presence of F1 and F2, two personal attendans (kizû), as well as F3 and F4, the two judges.
Cf. BM32863 (= Nbn 1047) and BM30890 (= Nbn 1048).
A = Bēl-ahhē-iddin/Marduk-zēru-ibni//Egibi; B = Nabû-ahhē-iddin/Šulāya//Egibi; C = Bēl-rēmanni/ Mušēzib-Bēl/Ile’’i-Marduk; D = Itti-Marduk-balāṭu/Nabû-ahhē-iddin//Egibi, B's son; E = Zēria, šatammu of Esagila; F1 = Kiribtu, kizû; F2 = Mušēzib-Bēl, kizû; F3 = Nergal-ahu-uṣur, dayyānu; F4 = Šumu-ukīn, dayyānu - Transliteration
- None
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Nbn. yy-VI-dd
further information
- Imported (Person, Date)
- Kathleen Abraham (20/12/2016)
- Legacy NaBuCCo ID
- 6986