BM 31872 +

Content

Paraphrase: Purchase of land by proxy.
A purchased 4 Kor (54000 m²) of agricultural land (zēru) from B, on the 24^th Tašrīt (VII) of Nebuchadnezzar’s 3rd year (see BM32849 and its duplicate BM30338). The land consists of a cultivated date garden (kirû gišimmarē zaqpi) along the bank (kišādu) of the Banītu-Canal, in front of (mehrat) the Zababa Gate in the district (pīḫatu) of Babylon. For this land, A gave 21 minas and 20 shekels of silver (including the additional payment (atru)) to B, and he sealed the sale tablet in his own name Several months later (the tablet is dated to 14^th Intercalary Addar (XII₂) of the same year), he concludes the deal with C₁ and C₂ on whose behalf he bought the land, acting as their proxy (ina našparti). The rest of the reverse and the beginning of the obverse are broken, only the final lines of the document are extant. These establish that should a duplicate (gabrû) of the original document related to the purchase of the land be found in A’s house or anywhere else, this belongs to C₁ and C₂. The two buyers also confirm that they are entitled to equal shares (ahāta) in the land. Names of 3 witnesses and the scribe.

A = Kabti-ilī-Marduk/Nabû-tabni-uṣur//Egibi; B = Nabû-šumu-uṣur/Nabû-kuzub-ilī//Rabi-banû; C₁ = Bānūnu/Ṣillāya//Rab-banê; C₂ = Nabû-ahhē-iddin/Šulāya//Egibi