| NaBuCCo ID | 1956 |
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| Museum No. | BM 30340 |
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| Place of issue | |
| Type and content | Promissory note ina muẖẖi |
| Archive | |
| Period | NB |
| Year BCE | None | Editio princeps | Nbn. 103 |
| Paraphrase | Promissory note for silver with interest. Pledge of land. B1 and his mother (fB2) owe 1 mina of silver to A, to be paid with interest in Tašrīt (VII). The debtors' upper field (eqlu elēnu), next to C's plot of land and his lower field (eqlu šupālu), planted with date palms (bīt gišimmarē) and grain (pî šulpi), next to the border of the abarakku's plot of land were pledged to the creditor and remain pledged. No other creditor shall exercise any rights over the pledged land until the debt and its interest are fully repaid. Payment will be in dates and for that purpose the harvest will be assessed (emēdu) in Tašrīt (VII) when the dates are still on the trees. The interest is fixed at c. 20% (lit. 0;1 kor per shekel) according to the market value of Šahrinu. The (indebted) silver is what has been paid for rikis qabli of the royal soldiers (ṣāb šarri). Names of 5 witnesses and the scribe: Bēl-iddin/Bēl-upahhir//Dābibi. A = Iddin-Marduk/Iqīšāya//Nūr-Sîn; B1 = Nabû-aplu-iddin/Šumu-iddin; fB2 = fBāba-eṭrat/Šamaš-ibni, mother of B1; C = Šumu-ukīn/Ša-nāšīšu |
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| Transliteration | None |
| Babylonian Date (year-month-day): | Nbn. yy-II-dd |