Tablet BM 30273

NaBuCCo ID 2168
Museum No. BM 30273
CDLI P-Identifier
Place of issue
Type and content Commercial partnership
Archive
Period Each
Year BCE 508
Editio princeps Dar. 359
Paraphrase Establishment of a business partnership. Head of the Egibi family is the investor.
The present record, formulated as a standard promissory note, documents a business partnership agreement. A invested 51 kor of dates, income from the collection of tithes (ešru) for the temple of Bēl, in a business partnership (harrānu) with B. The latter owes him the dates (ša A ina muhhi B). The partners agree that they will share equally (ahi zittu akālu) in the profits (utru) that B makes (epēšu) of the dates in or out of town. B assumes warranty for the capital amount of the dates. The partnership is to last three years. Names of 7 witnesses and the scribe.

A=Marduk-nāṣir-apli/Itti-Marduk-balāṭu//Egibi; B=Šamaš-ina-tēšê-ēṭir/Šamaš-iddin//Šamaš-abārī
Transliteration Transliteration available on Achemenet
Babylonian Date (year-month-day): Dar. yy-X-dd