Basic Metadata

NaBuCCo ID
2788
Museum No.
L 1634
Primary Publication
Joannès 1989 236
Place of issue
Borsippa city
Archive
Ea-ilūtu-bāni, Ilī-bāni and Nanāhu
Period
Early Achaemenid
Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
XXX. yy-XIIb-dd
Date BCE
486

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
 

Further Information

Type and Content
Marriages
Imported (Person, Date)
Melanie Gross (12/12/2016)
Legacy NaBuCCo ID
6721
Mentioned in the following publication(s)
Joannès 1989