Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 8633
- Museum No.
- NBC 04761
- Primary Publication
- Jursa 2005 022
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P297783
- Place of issue
- Nippur city
- Places mentioned on Tablet
- Babylon city
- Archive
- Bēl-eṭēri-Šamaš
- Period
- Early Achaemenid
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Cyr. 1-VIII-12
- Date BCE
- 21/11/538
Digeanna
- Text Form
- Receipt (maḫāru, eṭēru)
- Legal Purpose
- Administrative receipt ((ina qātē) maḫir; eṭir; also 'no verb')
- Transaction Type
- multiple transactions
- Format of the tablet
- landscape
- Sealings
- True
Content
- Paraphrase
This receipt documents that Bēl-eṭēri-Šamaš paid silver for sheep and “according to the value of tin” (kī pīannaki): It says that since the 1st day of the month tašrītu (= seventh month) of the first regnal year of Cyrus, king of Babylon, Itti-Šamaš-balāṭu, son of Širiktu, has received one and five-sixths of a mina of silver out of the hands (ina qātī) of Bēl-eṭēri-Šamaš, son of Aplāja. The silver, which Bēl-eṭēri-Šamaš gave to Itti-Šamaš-balāṭu includes (adi) silver in exchange for sheep and silver according to the value of tin (kī pī annaki). Both transactions occurred in the presence (ina ašābi) of Anu-zēru-iqīša.
Then the tablet is sealed with a stamp seal on the lower obverse.
On the reverse follows a list of four witnesses and a scribe: Nusku-erība, son of Līšir, Enlil-mukīn-apli, son of Gula-šumu-līšir, Libluṭ, son of Nabû-ēṭir, Bēlšunu, son of Arad-Ninurta, and the scribe: Enlil-uballiṭ, son of Pir’u.
Further Information
- created by
- Lynn-Salambô Zimmermann, Sept. 7, 2026, 2:03 p.m.
- last updated by
- Lynn-Salambô Zimmermann, Sept. 7, 2026, 2:03 p.m.