Tablet BM 41409

NaBuCCo ID 1115
Museum No. BM 41409
CDLI P-Identifier
Place of issue
Type and content Commercial partnership
Archive
Period NB
Year BCE None
Editio princeps Nbn. 572
Paraphrase Establishment of a business partnership (harranu).
A1 and A2 invest 5 minas of silver and 130 pieces of empty barrels in a business partnership with two slaves: B1, slave of C and B2, slave of A2. The parties agree that the investors are entitled to a share in whatever the slaves make with the silver and the barrels in or out of town that equals that of the slaves. B1 and B2 should be fed (aklu akālu G, lit. "eat bread")) and clothed (mu%iptu katāmu N) for the entire period that they run the business (našpartu alāku), and this in addition (elat) to the household utensils that are (already) at their disposal. Names of xxx witnesses and the scribe.
 
A1 = Itti-Marduk-balāṭu/Nabû-ahhē-iddin//Egibi; A2 = Marduk-Šāpik-zēri/Nabû-šumu-iddin//Nādin-še'im; B1 = Šēpit-Nabû-aṣbat, slave of C; B2 = Nabû-dīni-epuš, slave of A2; C = Nabû-ahhē-iddin
Transliteration None
Babylonian Date (year-month-day): Nbn. yy-XII-dd