BM 41456

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Paraphrase: IS THE PARAPHRASE OF DAR 395//DAR 396
Establishment of a business partnership (harranu).
A invests 100 kor of dates, 50 kor of barley (and) 60 pieces of empty barrels in a business partnership with his slave B₁ and B₂. The parties agree that B₁ and B₂ can divide (ahatašunu) whatever they make in or out of town with the said dates and barley between them, as long as they pay A yearly a fixed sum of 2 minas of silver. The document states further that the dates and barley stay at their disposal for three years. During this three-year period A cannot collect house rent from them. In the beginning of the third year, they should deliver the dates, the barley and the barrels without interest to A in Bīt-Hahhuru. Names of 6 witnesses, the scribe: Ubār//Ša-nāšīšu (= B₂), and 4 additional witnesses (mentioned after the date). The 2^nd additional witness’ patrinomy could not be copied by the scribe, hence he noted “broken” (hepû). His name is preserved in the BM30371 (= Dar 396).

A = Marduk-nāṣir-apli/Itti-Marduk-balāṭu//Egibi; B₁= Nabû-ayyālu, slave of A; B₂ = Ubār/Ina-tēšê-ēṭir//Ša-nāšīšu
Transliteration: Transliteration available on Achemenet
Babylonian Date (year-month-day):: Dar. yy---dd