BM 41402

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Paraphrase: Court protocol: dispute over the sale of a slave
^fA said thus to the judges of king Nabonidus: "In the month Abu (V) of Neriglissar’s 1^st regnal year, I sold my slave C to B for 1/2 mina and 5 shekels of silver. He wrote a promissory note (u‘iltu) and did not pay the silver". The judges heard (the plaintiff’s statement), brought (abālu) B and had him stand before them (uzuzzu Š). B showed (kullumu) the judges the contract (riksu) which he contracted (rakāsu) with ^fA and that proved that he had paid off (eṭēru) the remaining silver of the slave’s price. D₁, D₂ and D₃ testified (kânu D) in front of the judges that their mother ^fA had been repaid (eṭēru). The judges have discussed the case and established a fine amounting to 1/2 mina and 5 shekels of silver, the same sum she demanded, to be paid by ^fA. They have given the silver to B on the basis of this just decision. Related to this matter are also BM30574 (= Ner 23) and BM30454 (= Ner 42) Names of 6 judges and the scribe: Nergal-bānûnu//Rab-banê. The unsealed tablet YBC16313 seems to be a duplicate.

^fA = ^fBēlilitu/Bēl-ušēzib//Ša-nāšīšu(!), mother of D₁, D₂ and D₃; B = Nabû-ahhē-iddin/Šulāya//Egibi; C = Bazūzu; D₁ = Zēria, son of ^fA; D₂ = Nabû-šumu-līšir, son of ^fA; D₃ = Etellu, son of ^fA
Transliteration: None
Babylonian Date (year-month-day):: Nbn. yy-XI-dd