Babylonian Loans In Intercalary Months
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https://doi.org/10.15170/PONTES.2019.02.01.01Keywords:
Babilon, Loan, Econony, Ancient Near EastAbstract
Th e Babylonian calendar is characterized by the use of intercalation. To reconcile the difference between the lunar and solar calendar, intercalary months were inserted. In this brief study a cuneiform economic text from the Early Achaemenid period (6th cent. B.C.) is put under scrutiny. A special feature of the tablet, recorded in the reign of Darius I, is the fact that it was written in an intercalary month. In this study I intend to present an analysis on Babylonian interest-bearing loans and intercalary months.
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