Basic Metadata

NaBuCCo ID
3097
Museum No.
BM 75450
CDLI P-Identifier
Place of issue
None
Type and Content
None
Archive
Later Ebabbar temple
Dossier
None
Period
Each
Year BCE
None
Editio princeps

Content

Paraphrase

The document records that the Ebabbar temple? gave (nadānu, wr. sum.na) a total amount of 5/6 mina 5sic shekels of silver to (ana) A, a smith (nappāhu), to (ana) manufacture (epēšu) a ring/rings (unqu, wr. un-qu)*. The silver comprises of B's** old (labīru) ring, weighing (šuqultu) 5/6 mina 1 shekel of silver and an additional 5 shekels of silver issued (redû D) from the temple’s general revenue (irbu).

(*)wr. a-na e-peš šá un-qu. (**)wr. un-qu šá ha-ba-⌈GI?⌉-ru.

 

A= Libluṭ, a smith (nappāhu, Bongenaar 1997, 376f.: may even have been head of the bronze smiths); B= Habaṣīru!(/Mušēzib-Marduk/Šangû-Ištar-Bābili, a temple scribe, Bongenaar 1997, 75), wr. ha-ba-⌈GI?⌉-ru without the determinative sign for personal names.

 

Transliteration
None
Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
Dar. yy-I -27

further information

Imported (Person, Date)
Legacy NaBuCCo ID
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