Tablet BM 31585

NaBuCCo ID 1270
Museum No. BM 31585
CDLI P-Identifier
Place of issue
Type and content Receipt
Archive
Period Each
Year BCE None
Editio princeps Cyr. 362
Paraphrase About a slave sale: receipt of purchase price and transfer of the silver to a third party.
A receives (mahāru) 45 shekels of silver from B, it being the purchase price for his slave C; this sum does not include (elat) 6 shekels of silver paid previously. This silver is is used to pay off D, the creditor (rāšû) of the seller's brother (E). Names of 4 witnesses and the scribe.
 
A = Arad-Marduk/Šamaš-pir'a-uṣur//Eppeš-ilī; B = Dummuqu/Bēl-ahhē-iddin//Egibi; C = Madān-bēlu-uṣur; D = Iddin-Marduk/Iqīšāya//Nūr-Sîn; E = Rēmūt-Bēl/Šamaš-pir'a-uṣur/Eppeš-ilī, brother of A
Transliteration Transliteration available on Achemenet
Babylonian Date (year-month-day): Cyr. yy-XII-dd