BM 41434

Content

Paraphrase: Gift by a husband to his wife in lieu of dowry items.
A, of his own free will, issues a sealed document in which he gives (kanāku – dagālu D) real estate and slaves to his wife ^fB in compensation for the dowry items that he had either sold or incorporated in his own assets. Thus, he gives her his share in a plot of land cultivated with trees and grain that he owns together with his brothers and that is located in Bīt-kāṣir(?) on the Ṭupāšu-Canal, as well as 8 slaves: C₁, his wife ^fC₂, her 5 children ( D₁, D₂, D₃, D₄,^fD₅), and ^fE. All this is given in lieu of (kum) the following dowry items: 30 minas of white silver, 2 minas of gold, 5 minas of silver (in the form of) coils (qullu), 10 bracelets (semeru), and the two slaves (F₁ and ^fF₂) whom A had sold. Names of xxx witnesses and the scribe.

A = Marduk-nāṣir-apli/Itti-Marduk-balāṭu//Egibi; ^fB = ^fAmat-Bāba/Kalbāya//Nabāya; C₁ = Madān-bēlu-uṣur; ^fC₂ = ^fNanāya-bēlu-uṣur; D₁ = Zababa-iddin, son of ^fC₂; D₂ = Madānu-iddin, son of ^fC₂; D₃ = Bēlū-gabbi-Bēlumma, son of ^fB₂; D₄ = Ahušunu, son of ^fC₂; ^fD₅ = Hašdāya, daughter of ^fC₂; ^fE = ^fKaṣīrtu; F₁ = Nabû-ittia, slave; ^fF₂ = ^fNanāya-kilīlī-uṣrī, slave