Basic Metadata

NaBuCCo ID
6
Museum No.
BM 30838
CDLI P-Identifier
Place of issue
Babylon city
Type and Content
Promissory notes ina muẖẖi
Archive
Egibi/Nūr-Sîn
Dossier
None
Period
Each
Year BCE
510
Editio princeps
Dar.

Content

Paraphrase
Promissory note to pay a debt of silver and barley. Repayment according to the measure of the head of the Egibi family.
B should pay the 1/2 mina of medium quality silver, of which 1/8 is alloy, and the 38 kor of barley which are due from him, to A. Payment should be at the river (ina muhhi nāri) in Til-Gula, in one instalment and according to C’s measure, but it is not specified when it should take place. The place of delivery is further specified at the very end of the obverse, before the list of witnesses: at the lower embankment (ina šapliš kāri). Names of 4 witnesses and the scribe.

A=Marduk-bēlšunu/Arad-Marduk//Šangû-Ea; B=Nabû-ittannu/Nabû-zēru-līšir//Nūr-Papsukkal; C=Marduk-nāṣir-apli (=Marduk-nāṣir-apli/Itti-Marduk-balāṭu//Egibi)
Transliteration
Transliteration available on Achemenet
Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
Dar. yy-I-dd

further information

Imported (Person, Date)
Kathleen Abraham (18/04/2016)
Legacy NaBuCCo ID
4425