Tablet HS 559

NaBuCCo ID 2687
Museum No. HS 559
CDLI P-Identifier
Place of issue
Type and content Promissory note ina muẖẖi
Archive
Period NB
Year BCE 549
Editio princeps TMH 2/3 115
Paraphrase Loan of silver: B owes A [x] amounts of silver with 1/8 alloy (bitqu) per shekel, without interest (qaqqadu). fC, slave of B, is placed as a pledge and will serve A.
She is pledged to the creditor in lieu of paying interest (antichretic pledge). The silver which is intended for D and for which fC was taken as a pledge has been paid. 2 witnesses (including Nabû-ēṭir-napšāti/Šumāya//Ea-ilūtu-bāni) and the scribe. Broken clause mentioning B.
 
A = Zēr-Bābili/Šumāya//Ea-ilūtu-bāni, ērib bīt Nabû (enterer of the Nabû Temple); B = Nabû-šumu-iškun/Kudurru//Ilī-bāni; fC = fBanītu-šarrat, qallatu (female slave) of B; D = Nabû-šumu-ukīn/Šulāya//Šigûa; Scribe = Nabû-mukīn-apli/Nabû-nādin-ahi/Gahal

 
 
Transliteration None
Babylonian Date (year-month-day): Nbn. yy-XIIb-dd