Tablet BM 30301

NaBuCCo ID 1381
Museum No. BM 30301
CDLI P-Identifier
Place of issue
Type and content Purchase
Archive
Period NB
Year BCE None
Editio princeps Nbk. 166
Paraphrase Sale of a slave.
A1 and his wife fA2, of their own free will, sell their female slave fC to B for the hariṣ-price amounting to 1/3 mina and 5 shekels of silver. The sellers guarantee against (suits brought by) a person acting unlawfully (sēhû) or a person claiming (pāqirānu) that fC is a free person (mār banê). A broken passage at the end of the tablet informs that something/someone of the king (details are broken off) (wr. [..A]B?.A.MEŠ), that D [and?] A1, took (našû), has become scarce (maṭû) and they gave it back to E, the governor of the sealand (šakin tâmti). (The deal has been concluded) with fF, A’s mother-in-law, consent (ina ašābi). Names of 6 witnesses and the scribe.
 
A1 = Nabû-mušētiq-uddê/Rēmūtu-Bēl//Egibi; fA2 = fBu’ītu, wife of A1; B = Nabû-ahhē-iddin/Šulāya//Egibi; fC = fNanāya-kēširat; D = Nergal-uballiṭ; E = Nabû-šuzzizanni, šakin tâmti; fF = fBābu-ilat/Bebēa, mother-in-law of A
Transliteration None
Babylonian Date (year-month-day): Nbk. yy-VI-dd