Tablet VAT 540

NaBuCCo ID 2974
Museum No. VAT 540
CDLI P-Identifier P371723
Place of issue
Type and content Promissory note ina muẖẖi
Archive
Period Each
Year BCE None
Editio princeps VS 4 200
Paraphrase Promissory note for silver: B owes A 22 shekels of stamped silver and the amount of billetu-beer for 1 day of the brewer’s prebendin the Ebabbar. The debt bears an interest of 1 shekel of silver per mina (20%). He is to deliver 25 barrels of beer on the 3rd Ṭebēt (X) to A. B vouches for the performance and quality of the beer. 4 witnesses and the scribe: Bēl-rēmanni//Šangû-Šamaš. Addendum: He is to pay the interests from the 1st (of Ṭebēt?).
 
A = Šāpik-zēri/Mušēzib-Marduk//Amīl-Ea; B = Bēl-rēmanni/Mušebši-Marduk//Šangû-Šamaš
 
Transliteration None
Babylonian Date (year-month-day): Dar. yy-VIII-dd