Tablet VAT 386

NaBuCCo ID 1887
Museum No. VAT 386
CDLI P-Identifier
Place of issue
Type and content Purchase
Archive
Period Each
Year BCE 495
Editio princeps VS 6 148
Paraphrase Contract for supply of timber: B is to deliver to A 3 good-quality beams (gušūru) at the end of Ayyāru (II) at the dam of Kār-Tašmētu. These 3 beams comprise 2 good-quality, thick (šapṣu, šepṭūtu), trimmed (gaṣṣūtu) beams of similar girth (tāpalu), 2/3 cubit in width, one of which is 10 cubits long for a gate-support(?) (bāb išdu), and the other, a middle beam (qablû) 5 cubits long, plus 1 hewn(?) (hubû) beam 8 cubits long. A is to pay B 0;1 kor of dates. 3 witnesses and the scribe (Ea-iddin/Nabû-ahhē-iddin//Šigûa).
 
A = Šellebu/Iddin-Nabû//Nappāhu; B = Libluṭ/Nabû-šar-ahhēšu//Damiqu
 
Transliteration None
Babylonian Date (year-month-day): Dar. yy-I-dd