Tablet BM 30996

NaBuCCo ID 1035
Museum No. BM 30996
CDLI P-Identifier
Place of issue
Type and content Purchase
Archive
Period Each
Year BCE None
Paraphrase Sale of slaves. Fragmentary.
A, of his own free will, sells slaves to B, through a proxy fE: the slaves are C1 and his wife fC2, C3, C4, fC5, fC6,C7, C8 (name missing, his eldest brother), C9 and C10. In total, he sells ten of his slaves for a purchase price amounting to 22 minas of silver. After a large gap in the tablet, the warranty clause must have followed (only the words “A guarantees against..” are extant). At the end of the text, the seller acknowledges that he has received the entire sum of the purchase price from the buyer. Names of xxx witnesses.
 
A = Kalbāya/Ṣillāya//Nabāya; B = Marduk-nāṣir-apli/Itti-Marduk-balāṭu//Egibi; C1 = Silīm-Bēl; fC2 = fHabaṣīrtu, wife of C1; C3 = Bēl-eṭranni; C4 = Šēpit-Bēl; fC5 = fBēl-lū-balṭat; fC6 = fMurašītu; C7 = Šamaš-iddin, brother of C8; C8 = […]; C9 = Šamaš-bēlu-uṣur; C10 = fŠikkû (wr. fSik-ki-pa-šá); fE = fBu’ītu
Transliteration None
Babylonian Date (year-month-day): Dar. yy-II-dd