Basic Metadata

NaBuCCo ID
79
Museum No.
BM 30998
CDLI P-Identifier
Place of issue
Babylon city
Type and Content
Promissory notes ina muẖẖi
Archive
Egibi/Nūr-Sîn
Dossier
None
Period
NB
Year BCE
None
Editio princeps
Nbk.

Content

Paraphrase
Promissory note for the delivery of bronze objects.
B owes various bronze objects to A, to be delivered in Abu (V): one bronze cooking vessel (mušahhinu) (with a capacity) of 3 seahs (ṣimdu) (?)(*), one gulgullu-container (**), and 2/3 minas in finished bronze objects with a capacity of a beer container(?) (talammu) (***), …. weighing 5 shekels (of bronze) […] and one pitcher (dālu A) weighing 5 shekels (of bronze), finished work (gamru). The promissory notes for 5 minas of bronze are to be considered invalid (lit. "broken") as they have been paid off (?). Witnesses.
(*)So CAD Ṣ, 197. Alternatively, … (weighing) 3 minas (?); (**)Or: "(in the form of a) skull" (CAD G, 128 s.v. gullatu A); (***)gamru ša(?) ta(?)-lam-mu x x x. Cf. CAD T, 92: "finished work (with the capacity) of one talammu."
 
A = Nabû-ahhē-iddin/Šulāya//Egibi; B = Nabû-ahhē-ušallim/Bēl-šumu-iškun//Nappāhu
Transliteration
None
Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
Nbk. yy-IV-dd

further information

Imported (Person, Date)
Kathleen Abraham (07/01/2017)
Legacy NaBuCCo ID
7878