Dagan-kabar, son of Hima

Dagan-kabar, son of Hima is recorded as a well-known citizen and a creditor in Emar, Syria. He deled with towns merchants, foreign and domestic. His banking operations were based on lending silver. He is mentioned to have lent 272 shekels of silver (about 2.5 kilograms) to one Marduk, probably a Babylonian merchant. It is also known from one of his document that he took 5 talents (about 335 kilograms) of alum as a security for a debt of 150 shekels of silver.

Dagan-kabar cooperated with his brother Dagan-talih in running his banking business, and left a notable archive of legal documents in Emar. Documents regarding Dagan-kabar and his brother are dated to twelfth century BC.