The Egibi Family Archive

Various (three generations of the Egibi banking and trading family) · c. 600-484 BC (Neo-Babylonian through early Achaemenid periods) · Babylon (Iraq) · administrative

Roughly 1,700 contracts, receipts, and loan documents from a single Babylonian merchant-banking family across five generations argue that private commercial capital, not just temple or palace wealth, was already a major engine of the Neo-Babylonian economy before Persian conquest.