BM 30655

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Paraphrase: Deposition before witnesses about the responsibility of guarding the palace gate.
The document lists 7 witnesses (A₁, A₂, A₃, A₄, A₅, A₆ and A₇) who were present when, on the 27^th Šabāṭ (XI) of Nebuchadnezzar’s 22^nd regnal year, B and his warrantor C (māhiṣ pūti) have taken over the guarding (maṣṣartu naṣāru) for D until the closing of the palace gate (adi turri bābi ina bāb ekalli). After (malDītu , wr. ma-al-DI-tu₄) the closing of the gate (turru bābi), these witnesses said to B and C: “The gate is closed, the lord may go”. On the edge of the tablet one reads the names of E₁, the high officer (rab sikkati) and E₂, the courtier (ša rēš šarri).

A₁ = Šulāya/Nabû-ahhē-iddin//Egibi; A₂ = Pir’u/?; A₃ = Nabû-zēru-ušabši/?; A₄ = Bēl-ahhē-iqīša/?; A₅ = Nabû-mukīn-apli/Bulluṭu; A₆ = Mušallim-ilī/Rēmūt-Bēl; A₇ = Bēl-ahhē-iddin/Aplāya; B = Nabû-nebana-ilī (nabunabianaili, nabuibbianaili); C = Mušēbši-Marduk; D = Bēlet-ilia; E₁ = Ana-muhhi-Bēl-amur, rab sikkati; E₂ = Mušēzib-Nabû, ša rēš šarri
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Babylonian Date (year-month-day):: Nbk. yy-XI-dd