Basic Metadata

NaBuCCo ID
2788
Museum No.
L 1634
CDLI P-Identifier
Place of issue
Borsippa city
Type and Content
Marriages
Archive
Ea-ilūtu-bāni, Ilī-bāni and Nanāhu
Dossier
None
Period
Each
Year BCE
486
Editio princeps
Joannès 1989

Content

Paraphrase
Dialogue document concerning a marriage agreement: A voluntarily (ina hūd libbišu) approaches (qabû) fB and calls on her to come and become his wife. fB grants (šemû) the request and agrees to marry and stay with A. She voluntarily (ina migir libbišu, mi-gi-il) gives to A as a dowry (nudunnû) 1/3 mina of silver along with various different pots and vessels. On the day A marries another woman, he will give 1 mina of silver to fB. Each party has taken a copy. 3 witnesses and the scribe.
 
A = Nidintu-Bēl/Bēl-ahu-iddin; fB = fTablūṭu/Nabû-šarru-uṣur; Scribe = Nabû-rē’û-[…]/Itti-Nabû-balāṭu//Rīšaya
 
Transliteration
None
Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
Dar. yy-XIIb-dd

further information

Imported (Person, Date)
Melanie Gross (12/12/2016)
Legacy NaBuCCo ID
6721