Tablet Annuaire EPHE 1982 no. 609

NaBuCCo ID 3265
Museum No. Annuaire EPHE 1982 no. 609
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Type and content Inventory
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Period ENB
Year BCE None
Editio princeps Payne 2007 (unpubl. PhD diss.) 609
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Note regarding gold and silver put at the disposal of two individuals. Dated.

The tablet records weighed gold and silver that are at the disposal of A and B.

[A] has 1 mina 56 shekels of gold at his disposal (ina pāni) for assaying (pidānu).

B, the (bronze) smith has 20 minas 10 shekels of silver, for … and a silver fermenting vat (namztu) at his disposal. The vat is one that (is used in the cult) before (ša pāni) the god [DN].

These metals were put (nadû) in the hand-held (qātē) bronze balance (zibānītu) and weighed (hâṭu) according to the 10 mina bronze weight and the 10 mina galâlu-stone weight.

 

A= […]; B= Nabû-zēru-ibni (//Nappāhu), bronze smith (nappāh siparri), see Payne 2007 (PhD diss.), 317, and see p. 78 for an alternative identification of a goldsmith of the same name

Transliteration
Babylonian Date (year-month-day): Kan. 10+-XII-10