Details

Subjects:

Akkadian language -- Texts.
Cuneiform tablets -- Specimens.
Cuneiform tablets.

Form/Genre:

Credit records.
Inscriptions.
Tablets.
Manuscripts, Digital.
Specimens.

Language:

Akkadian.

Biography/History:

Wealthy Babylonian banking family.

Summary:

Record of a debt of one mina, 15 1/16 shekels of nuhhutu-quality silver owned by Kinaya, son of Nadinu, to Shisku, son of Iddina, of the Egibi family, with names of 7 witnesses.

Notes:

Ms. inscription.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Layout: Inscribed in 10 lines on 2 sides of the tablet.
Script: Inscribed in cuneiform characters.
Origin: Inscribed in Babylon, 21 Ayyaru, 27 [?] of the reign of Darius I (494 B.C.?).

Local notes:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.

Penn Provenance:

Sold at auction at Swann Galleries, 10 Oct. 1989, lot 66.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.

Cited in:

Described in Transformation of knowledge: early manuscripts from the collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg (London: Paul Holberton, 2006), p. 146 (LJS 100).

Cited as:

UPenn LJS 100.

Contributor:

Schoenberg, Lawrence J., former owner.
Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

OCLC:

815948861

Web link:

The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page