Tablet BM 31723

NaBuCCo ID 1164
Museum No. BM 31723
CDLI P-Identifier
Place of issue
Type and content Multiple transactions
Archive
Period NB
Year BCE 547
Editio princeps Nbn. 353
Paraphrase Undertaking to deliver dates and its by-products
Concerning the dates that are the estimated income from imposts (imittu) from land on the New Canal for the 9th year of Nabonidus and due to A1 and A2.
B1, B2, who is the slave of A1, B3 and B4 will deliver in Babylon at the Canal each respectively 63 kor of dates (B1), 43 kor of dates (B2), 33 kor of dates (B3), and 32 kor of dates (B4). The next passage is fragmentary and deals with the by-products of the date production. For each kor of dates, they will deliver spathes (tuhallu), … (broken), and darīku-containers, … (broken). This is in addition to (elat) the 7 kor of dates of the 8th year that are still due from B4. Names of 3 witnesses and the scribe.
 
A1 = Nabû-ahhē-iddin/Šulāya//Egibi; A2 = Bēl-nādin-apli/Nergal-ušallim// Ile’’i-Marduk; B1 = Arad-Bēl/ Kabtia//Pappāya; B2 = Nabû-rīhtu-uṣur; B3 = Nergal-ušallim/Tabnēa//Sîn-karābī-išme;  B4 = Gimillu/Šākin-šumi//AradNergal
Transliteration None
Babylonian Date (year-month-day): Nbn. yy-VI-dd