Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 481
- Museum No.
- BM 31244
- CDLI P-Identifier
- Place of issue
- Babylon city
- Type and Content
- Receipts
- Archive
- Egibi/Nūr-Sîn
- Dossier
- None
- Period
- NB
- Year BCE
- 560
- Editio princeps
- EvM
Content
- Paraphrase
- Receipt of silver. Purchase price of building plots, with transfer of (part of) the silver to the seller’s creditor.
Concerns two building plots (qanû) which A purchased (ana kaspi nadānu) from respectively B1 and B2, and his payment of the purchase price by proxy. The first plot measures 4;0.1.6 gi (c. xxx m2) and was sold for the agreed price (šīmu gamru) of 2 ½ minas and 1 ½ shekels of silver and unspecified amounts of an additional payment (atru) and lubāru-garments. The second plot measures 2;0.6 2/3.0 gi (c. xxx m2) and was sold for the agreed price (šīmu gamru) of 1 2/3 minas and 7 1 ½ shekels of silver. In the present document the sellers acknowledge their receipt (eṭēru) of the above mentioned sums of silver from C who acts on the buyer’s order (ina našparti). Names of 4 witnesses and the scribe.
A = Neriglissar/Bēl-šumu-iškun; B1 = Marduk-šākin-šumi/Marduk-šumu-uṣur//Šigûa; B2 = Kurbanni-Marduk/Šūzibu//Andahar; C = Nabû-ahhē-iddin/Šulāya//Egibi - Transliteration
- None
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- AM. yy-X-dd
further information
- Imported (Person, Date)
- Kathleen Abraham 20/12/2016
- Legacy NaBuCCo ID
- 6998