BM 31052

Content

Paraphrase: Security for a silver debt.
B₁ (still) owes 2 minas and 14 shekels of silver to A, for which, among others, C's house is given as (after-)pledge (cf. BM30350 = Nbk. 133). Out of the said amount of silver, 1 mina and 54 ½ shekels are (now) owed by B₂ his son (lit. are at B₂’s disposal, ina pāni) and for the remaining amount (rēhu) the son will pay 2 shekels on a monthly basis in the form of (kima) house rent to A from the 1^st of Abu (V) onwards. At the end of the document, after the list of witnesses and the date, and written on the tablet's upper edge, the issue of pledge and house rent is taken up in more detail, but part of the phraseology remains obscure. It is said that the previous house rent due from (ina pāni) B₁ and the house rent due from B₂ to […] A (uncl.); ^fD and whatever B₁ (lit. "he") owns in and outside of the city are pledged to A. On the same matter, see also its final settlement in BM30348 = Nbk. 172 (2 ½ years after the current document). Names of 2 witnesses and the scribe.

A = Nergal-uballiṭ/Išum-uballiṭ//Bēl-ēṭiru; B₁ = Šulāya/Nabû-zēru-ukīn//Egibi; B₂ = Nabû-ahhē-iddin/Šulāya//Egibi; C= (Marduk-)Šāpik-zēri/Marduk-zēru-ibni//Šangû-Ninurta; ^fD = ^fIna-ṣilli-Bēl
Transliteration: None
Babylonian Date (year-month-day):: Nbk. yy-V-dd