Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 3097
- Museum No.
- BM 75450
- Primary Publication
- Archive
- Later Ebabbar temple
- Period
- Early Achaemenid
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- XXX. yy-I -27
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.