Basic Metadata

NaBuCCo ID
7261
Museum No.
CBS0 03611
Primary Publication
BE 08 089
CDLI P-Identifier
P259984
Place of issue
Nippur city
Regional setting
Nippur region
Archive
Ekur (early)
Period
Early Achaemenid
Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
Cam. 4-XI-16
Date BCE
11/02/525

Digeanna

Text Form
Receipt (maḫāru, eṭēru)
Legal Purpose
Payment (apil, eṭir)
Second-order accounting
True
Format of the tablet
square

Content

Paraphrase

A receipt(?) concerning 3š of silver, which are owed (ina muḫḫi) by Šamšāya/Nabû-... (Šm), Arad-Gula/Šamaš-iqīša (AG) (and?) Sūqāya/Nabû-Rēsu (Sq), at the order (ina qībi) of Širkti-Ninurta, the Governor of Nippur (šandabakku) [… ], Šm had […].

This is apart from 4š of silver… Sq… AG …

3 witnesses and the scribe Iddin-Enlil/Arad-Gula.

Aramaic epigraphs:

(1) Šamšāya (šwšy)

(2) 3 shekels (x x l t ' 3; alt. šṭr ṭ/l t '/m 3/2)

 

The second Aramaic epigraph, on the LeE., was not copied in BE 8.

Arad-Gula/Šamaš-iqīša = mār šipri of the šandabakku.


Further Information

created by
Yuval Levavi, March 3, 2026, 10:59 a.m.
last updated by
Yuval Levavi, April 2, 2026, 1:34 p.m.