Egibi

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Egibi is the name of a noble Babylonian family of traders who can be traced from the reign of Nebuchadnezzar II to the beginning of the reign of Xerxes I. A total of five generations of this family are known to science today, to which Itti-Marduk-Balatu , Nabu-aḫḫe-iddina , Nuptaja and Šulaja belonged.

The Egibi family is known for their extensive archives found during excavations, which document their rise to prosperity through the leasing of land and credit transactions. Together with the smaller archive of the businessman Iddin-Marduk , with whom the Egibi family had close relationships, it is one of the most important sources for research into business and legal life in Chaldean and Achaemenid Babylon.

literature

  • A. Ungnad, The Egibi House in Archive for Orient Research 14, pp. 57–64.
  • J. Krecher, The Egibi office building in Babylonia in the New Babylonian and Achaemenid Periods, Münster, 1970.
  • G. van Driel, The Rise of the house Egibi: Nabū-aḫḫe-iddina in: Jaarsbericht van het Vooraziatisch-Egyptisch Genootschap 'ex Oriente Lux 29, pp. 50-67.
  • C. Wunsch, Die Frauen der Familie Egibi in: Archiv für Orientforschung 42/43, S. 33–63.