BM 31793

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Paraphrase: Receipt of silver by the head of the Egibi family. Partial repayment of a debt. Reference to the sale of a prebend by the debtors.
A receives* 1 2/3 minas of medium quality silver, of which 1/8 is alloy, from B₁ and B₂, his son. It is part of a larger debt (u'iltu) of 4 minas of medium quality silver, of which 1/8 is alloy, 66 kor of dates, and 4 kor of some other kind of produce, that B₁ owes to A. His orchard (zēru zaqpu) in Ṣilimma had been pledged (maškānu ṣabātu) to secure the repayment of the dates (kūm). A badly preserved clause at the end refers to the sale of a prebend (šīm isqi) by the debtors and its interpretation is open to discussion. Names of 5 witnesses and the scribe.

*Verb of receipt is broken.
**ll. 8-12: "About the 1 2/3 minas silver, the price of the prebend of the [...] which^?B₁ and B₂, A with ^m[...].”

A=Marduk-nāṣir-apli/Itti-Marduk-balāṭu//Egibi; B₁=Bēl-upahhir/Nergal-iddin; B₂=Bēl-ibni(or -nāṣir)