BM 77344

Content

Paraphrase: Dialogue document regarding the adoption of a grandson with bequest: A approaches B₁ and ^fB₂ with the request to adopt C, their 3-year-old son. They grant the request (šemû, iš-še-[mu-ú⌉) to A and give him C for adoption (ana mārûti). A makes over to C prebendary income, viz., the heads of purified sheep (immeru ubbubu), [the epigastrium? (karšu)], the allotment (isihtu) of sheep, [... ...] for the whole year, all that is before [Papsukkal] of Bīt-Bēlet-Eanna by the canal of Ešasurra before Išhara, and 1.1.4 kor planted and arable field, which is on the iltuk of the riv[er?] next to the property of Bēl-iddin//Arad-[Bēl/Nabû] and next to the nār-Kaldu, next to the Harru-ša-Ninurta. 5 witnesses “are present at the sealing”, and the scribe (Bāniya/Sūqāya//Bēl-eṭēri).

A = Marduk-šumu-uṣur/Nergal-uballiṭ//Bēl-eṭēri; B₁ = Kidin-Marduk/Iddin-Nabû//Bēl-eṭēri (son-in-law of A); ^fB₂ = Ramûa/Marduk-šumu-uṣur//Bēl-eṭēri (wife of B₁; daughter of A); C = Marduk-rēmanni/Kidin-Marduk//Bēl-eṭēri (son of B₁ and ^fB₂)
Transliteration: None
Babylonian Date (year-month-day):: Cyr. yy-VIII-dd