Tablet BM 33119

NaBuCCo ID 234
Museum No. BM 33119
CDLI P-Identifier
Place of issue
Type and content Promissory note ina muẖẖi
Archive
Period NB
Year BCE None
Editio princeps Nbk. 42
Paraphrase Promissory note for silver. Purchase price for oxen. Undertaking under oath to pay in time.
B owes a broken amount (x minas) of silver to A, to be paid in Arahsamna (VIII). It is the price for his purchase of 3 four-year-old oxen and (the right to) their female offspring ((w)aldu, wr. maldātu! Pl., T: šiddatu) for 4 years. B swears before Bēl and the king that he will pay (eṭēru) before Arahsamna has passed (etēqu). All (mala bašû) the slaves (amīlūtu) of B and his house in Šahrītu are pledged to A. No other creditor shall dispose of the pledged slaves till A has received his silver in full. Names of 4 witnesses and the scribe: Arad-Bēl/Bēl-ēṭir//Egibi. His previous debt (u'iltu) have been paid (hepû).
 
A= Šulāya/Zēru-ukīn//Egibi; B= Amurru-šamā’/Zabinu
Transliteration None
Babylonian Date (year-month-day): Nbk. yy-V-dd