Basic Metadata

NaBuCCo ID
1193
Museum No.
BM 30579
CDLI P-Identifier
Place of issue
Babylon city
Type and Content
Purchases
Archive
Egibi/Nūr-Sîn
Dossier
None
Period
NB
Year BCE
None
Editio princeps
Nbn.

Content

Paraphrase
Sale of a slave and settlement of a previous debt.
A, of his own free will, sells his slave C to B, for an agreed purchase price amounting to 1 mina of silver. fD, A’s wife, guarantees against (suits brought by) a person acting unlawfully (sēhû) or a person claiming (pāqirānu) that the slave! (the text has “slaves”) is a palace servant (arad ekalli) or a free person (mār banê). A's debt to B (rāšû ša muhhi A) has been settled (ana eṭēri nadnu) with the silver from the sale. Names of 3 witnesses and the scribe.
 
A = Nabû-zēru-ukīn/Nabû-šumu-ukīn//Ašlāku; B = Nabû-uṣur-šū/Balāṭu//Miṣirāya; C = Rēmūt-Bāba; fD = fHabaṣīrtu/Bēl-ahhē-iddin, wife of A
Transliteration
None
Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
Nbn. yy-VIII-dd

further information

Imported (Person, Date)
Kathleen Abraham 09/01/2017
Legacy NaBuCCo ID
7677