Tablet BM 31220

NaBuCCo ID 1140
Museum No. BM 31220
CDLI P-Identifier
Place of issue
Type and content Hiring
Archive
Period NB
Year BCE None
Editio princeps Nbn. 843
Paraphrase Hiring of a person
A1 and A2 will travel overland (ana ṣēri alāku) with B, the slave of C  for a monthly payment of 4 ½ shekels of silver, leaving this very day (the 11th of Ayyar (II)). Their parents (C and fD) receive (maḫāru) their (children’s) one-month salary (idu), namely the 4 ½ shekels of silver, from B. The person who violates the contract (nabalkutu) shall pay 4 ½ shekels of silver. Names of 2 witnesses and the scribe.
 
A1 = Nādin(/Marduk-nāṣir//…); A2 = …/Marduk-nāṣir]//…; B = Ṣilli-Bēl, slave of C; C = Iddin-Marduk/Iqīšāya//Nūr-Sîn; D = Marduk-nāṣir, father of A1 and A2; fE = Ṭubūtu, mother of A1 and A2
Transliteration None
Babylonian Date (year-month-day): Nbn. yy-II-dd