IV 221 ). It occurs in Babylonian records since the eighth century BC, long before the time of
the Babylonian Captivity. By the sixth century, several different family branches are attested
in Babylon and Uruk alone, and more than 200 individuals are known who claim to be
descendents of Egibi(see Tallqvist 1905 :s.v.).
2 R. Bogaert’s exhaustive 1966 study on early ‘banking’ shows that the essential characteristic
of taking money as a deposit and lending it out at a higher rate cannot be found.
3 See in detail Wunsch 1997 – 98 and 1999.
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— The Egibi family —