- TOTEM TRIBE GOLD GREAT DESERT OBELISK ORDER ARCHIVE
- TOTEM TRIBE GOLD GREAT DESERT OBELISK ORDER FULL
The latter belongs to the fourth generation in the archive. This plot of land was in the possession of a certain Bēl-ēṭir of the family of Nūr-Sîn and was bought by Marduk-nāṣir-apli of the Egibi-family. Since the latter has some damaged areas, the Edinburgh tablet, though with minor variations, helps to better understand the whole transaction. This perfectly preserved tablet is a duplicate to a tablet now in the British Museum (BM 32180+33125 published in Wunsch, op.cit., no. This legal document in the collection of the National Museums Scotland witnesses the purchase of a plot of land.
TOTEM TRIBE GOLD GREAT DESERT OBELISK ORDER ARCHIVE
This archive has been thoroughly studied by C. 1,700 texts can be assigned to this family of entrepreneurs spanning over five generations. The largest private archive from the Neo-Babylonian and subsequent Achaemenid period (547-331 BC) is the Egibi family archive. Typology, Contents and Archives, 2005 and Aspects of the Economic History of Babylonia in the First Millennium BC, 2010). Jursa, Neo-Babylonian Legal and Administrative Documents. 8,000 texts) in Uruk (for overviews see M. 35,000 texts) or the Eanna temple (with approx. Most of our documentation derives from institutional archives like the temple archive of the Ebabbar temple in Sippar (with approx. 626-539 BC) is characterised by a dense documentation, which equals in terms of concentration and amount the Ur III period (ca. The document contains an interesting clause, which prevents any creditors to lay claim onto the amount of money given to the two women. The possessions of the heir's father are being re-evaluated and the court decides that both the heir's mother-in-law as well as his wife shall be fully paid for their dowries. As a husband he has usufruct on his wife's dowry.
TOTEM TRIBE GOLD GREAT DESERT OBELISK ORDER FULL
The heir Bel-apla-iddina states before the judge that his father never received the full amount of dowry and that he is unable to repay both dowries. She claims that the son and heir of her husband did not give her the dowry, which entered the property when she married his father. The well-preserved text in the National Museums Scotland the heir of the deceased husband acts in the interest of two dowries, that of his father's widow and that of his own wife. If he died, it would secure the widow's future. This property rests with the husband, who was responsible for maintaining its value. 626-539 BC) the dowry was handed over to the groom at the time of marriage. The document goes on to claim that it received the royal seal of Babylon in front of five high Babylonian officials whose names were inscribed on the tablet as well. The event is recorded to have taken place on the twentieth of Nisan, in the twentieth year of the rule of King Nabu-apla-iddina. The priest claimed that the land was property of his father Adnaya and therefore claimed it to be his own. The inscription tells us that King Nabu-apla-iddina restored the lands of the priest. There are a variety symbols inscribed on the top and the side of the tablet as well. The objects on the shrine from the left are placed in the following order: (1) spearhead, (2) ram-headed crook, (3) two rods joined in the center, (4) two horned headdresses, (5) an eagle-headed mace, and (6) a lion-headed mace. On top of them is the shrine, which has various objects laid upon it. On the left with his hand raised is the priest who is standing in front of his king to the right. The front of the tablet shows an image of two men.