Tablet BM 30976

NaBuCCo ID 1130
Museum No. BM 30976
CDLI P-Identifier
Place of issue
Type and content Apprenticeship
Archive
Period Each
Year BCE None
Editio princeps Cyr. 325
Paraphrase Apprenticeship contract
A gives (nadānu) voluntarily his slave C to the stone cutter (purkullu) B, who is a slave (qallu) of the crownprince (mār šarri) Cambyses, during 4 years to learn the craft of stone cutter (purkullūtu).
B will teach C the craft of stone cutter. When he fails to do so, he will pay 20 shekels of silver (to the slave or his owner). When he teaches him in the 4 years the craft, … (broken off).
A will provide (katāmu D-stem) C with clothes (muṣiptu).
Names of 2 witnesses and the scribe.
At the end of the document, after the list of witnesses, place and date, there is a fragmentary line mentioning 5 shekels of silver, the month Nisan (I) and the verb nadānu
 
A = Itti-Marduk-balāṭu/Nabû-ahhē-iddin//Egibi; B = Hašdāya; C = Gûzu-ina-Bēl-aṣbat
Transliteration Transliteration available on Achemenet
Babylonian Date (year-month-day): Cyr. yy-XII-dd