Basic Metadata

NaBuCCo ID
3916
Museum No.
WHM 1504
CDLI P-Identifier
Place of issue
No place
Type and Content
Inventories
Archive
Eanna temple
Dossier
None
Period
NB
Year BCE
None
Editio princeps
Sack 1994 (Documents)

Content

Paraphrase

Balance of a silver account(?) Dated.

The tablet records x minas 16 shekels of silver, which is the outstanding balance (rēḫu) of the promissory note (uˀiltu) for 1 talent 45 minas of silver, the price of the wool at the disposal of A1 and A2.

The text is slightly fragmentary, and the calculations of silver are unclear.

25/6 mina 1 shekel of silver is the price of 18 ½ + 1/24 shekels of gold, in addition (adi muḫḫi) to […], the general income (irbu) of B, the chariot driver (mukīl appāti), for 5⅔ shekels, in addition to 6 shekels. 28 (shekels are) the general income of C. total of 65/6 minas 6 shekels of silver are at the disposal (ina pāni) of A1. plus 2 minas 14 shekels of silver at the disposal of D. Total of 9 minas of silver, in place of the silver which E, the harbour master (rab kāre), drew (našû) from A1 (and) which was given to A1. […]

[x] minas […] have been paid for the reeds.

 

A1= Bēl-ibni/Mukīn-zēri//Innin-[…]; A2= Marduk-šumu-uṣur/[…]; B= Bēl-uballiṭ, chariot driver (mukīl appāti); C= Zēria/Bēl-šumu-iškun; D= Balāṭu/Bēl-iqīša//Irānni; E= Nergal-nāṣir, harbour master (rab kāre)

Transliteration
Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
Nbk. 23-VIII-17

further information

Imported (Person, Date)
Yuval Levavi, Kathleen Abraham (12/09/2023)
Legacy NaBuCCo ID
None