Tablet BM 31481

NaBuCCo ID 1089
Museum No. BM 31481
CDLI P-Identifier
Place of issue
Type and content Commercial partnership
Archive
Period NB
Year BCE None
Editio princeps Wunsch 2000 54
Paraphrase Interim settlement of accounts within the framework of a business partnership (harranu). Fragmentary.
The document opens with a list of items, but their amounts are damaged. It concerns at least 100 vats for new, first-quality beer (rēštu), and broken amounts of  vats for old, first-quality beer empty vats,  fermenting vats (namzītu), 4+ slaves, 30+ kor of dates, 10+ kor of mustard seeds, x various amounts of silver, a.o. 7 shekels for the purchase of 80 kor of limestone/dung(?) ( abattu) and 1 shekel  for the purchase of kor of cress (sahlû). In total, 7 minas and 1 shekel of silver that have been inspected in the house (amāru). This is followed by a badly preserved passage which lists 60 kor of dates and miscellaneous amounts of silver that were put  at the disposal (ina pāni) of 5  named individuals (C1-5). Further also the  1 mina and 5 1/12 shekels of silver at C6’s disposal  of which 14 ½ shekels were  debited from the account tablet (lēˀu ) that registers  disbursals (tēlītu) since the 15th of [name of month is broken off] of the 3rd year, 20 2/3 shekels of scrap silver were paid out to/for (tēlītu) […] and 30 shekels of silver that were lent out in Neriglissar’s 0th year and are still outstanding. This brings us to a total of 10 minas and 28 shekels of silver in the business account of A and B that are are placed at B’s disposal. [The name is broken off] promises under oath (tamû) to(?) A that if fD , but at this point the tablet breaks off. Names of at least 6 witnesses and the scribe.
 
A = Nabû-ahhē-iddin/Šulāya//Egibi; B = Bēlšunu(/Bēl-ahhē-iddin//Sîn-imitti); C1 = Nabû-zēru-iqīša; C2 = Bēl-ahu-...; C3 and C4= [the names is broken off]; C5 = Iddin-Marduk; C6= Marduk-mušētiq-uddê; fD = fIshunnatu
Transliteration None
Babylonian Date (year-month-day): Nbn. yy---dd