This book supplements and broadens the author’s study “The Rental of Houses in the Neo-Babylonian Period (VI–V Centuries BC” (2018). The new texts published here demonstrate that the rental of houses brought the entrepreneurs of the famous Neo-Babylonian Egibi family regular income for a long period of time. The tenants of the houses of the Egibis were representatives of many families operating mainly in Babylon, as well as in Borsippa and Kutha. To assess the nature of these mutual relations, it was necessary to study the family archives that survives to our time and the plentiful data about the families in the documents of other families. The renting of the house was only one of the activities (and income) of the Egibis, but these data provide an insight into the mutual relations of the Egibis with many other families. The richly annotated editions of 27 contracts for house rentals and 21 receipts from Babylon, Borsippa, Dilbat, and Sippar are supplemented by extensive indices.

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Preface

1. The receipt of payment of house rent by a member of the Bābūtu family to Egibi             

2. The receipt of payment of house rent by a member of the Ea-ēpeš-ilī family to Egibi       

3. The rental of a house by a member of the Nūr-Sîn family from Egibi

4. The rental of a house by member of the Sîn-šadûnu family from Egibi

    Appendix A: Šangû-Ea family

5. The rental of a house by member of the Ša-nāšīšu family from Egibi

    Appendix B: the dossier of Nabû-aplu-iddin, son of (Itti-Nabû)-Balāṭu of the Ša-nāšīšu family

6. The rental of a house by member of the Paḫḫāru family from Egibi

7. The rental of a house by member of the Rabȃ-ša-Ninurta family from Egibi

8. The rental of a house by member of the Malāḫu family from Egibi

9. The receipt of payment of house rent by member of the Aqar-ana-Nabû family to Egibi

10. Additional contracts of rental of houses of Egibi

11. Fragmentarily preserved contracts for rental of houses

12. Additional receipts for rental of houses

13. Fragmentarily preserved receipts for rental of houses

Conclusion

Bibliography and bibliographical abbreviations

Indices

Personal names in the edited texts

Family names in the edited texts

Edited texts

Cited texts