Tablet VAT 101

NaBuCCo ID 1657
Museum No. VAT 101
CDLI P-Identifier
Place of issue
Type and content Purchase
Archive
Period Each
Year BCE 533
Editio princeps VS 6 102
Paraphrase Attestation of witnessing the sale of a slave: The tablet records that A was present as witness among the elders (ab-bameš) at the drawing up of the tablet in which fD was sold to fB by fC. 4 witnesses, including the maternal uncle of fB (Iqīšāya/Šumu-iddin//Kutimmu) and the brother of fB (Nabû-tabni-uṣur/Balāṭu//Egibi), and the scribe (Nabû-ahhē-bulliṭ/Šumu-ukīn//Šangû-parakki).
 
A = Iddin-Nabû/Šulāya//Rab-banê (oldest son of fC); fB = fIna-Esagil-ramât/Balāṭu//Egibi; fC = Nūptāya/Nāˀid-Marduk//Bābūtu; fD = fNanāya-bēlu-uṣrī
 
Transliteration None
Babylonian Date (year-month-day): Cyr. yy-IX-dd