Tablet VAT 94

NaBuCCo ID 1892
Museum No. VAT 94
CDLI P-Identifier
Place of issue
Type and content Summons/Oath/Injunction
Archive
Period Each
Year BCE 537
Editio princeps VS 6 97
Paraphrase Obligation to produce a witness to a transaction: A1 and A2 are to have B preside (ašābu Š) as witness (mukinnûtu) to fD’s purchase document (uˀiltu) of fC, as B raises claim (ana paqāri alāku) with E over fC (cf. VAT93). A clause in case of non-compliance on pain of paying 1 mina 12 shekels of silver and 1 kor of barley follows. 2 witnesses and the scribe (Libūru/Nabû-zēru-līšir//Nabûnnāya).
 
A1 = Šamaš-pirˀ-uṣur/Nāˀid-Marduk//Bābūtu; A2 = Nabû-balāssu-iqbi/Šulāya/Rab-banê; B = Iddin-Nabû/Šulāya/Rab-banê; fC = fNanāya-bēl-uṣrī (slave of fD); fD = fIna-Esagil-ramât/Balāṭu//Egibi; E = Iddināya (= Iddin-Nabû/Nabû-bān-zēri//Nappāhu, husband of fD)
 
Transliteration None
Babylonian Date (year-month-day): Cyr. yy-IV-dd