BM 31217

Content

Paraphrase: Memorandum about a delivery of onions. Partial receipt.
It concerns the 150000 strings (gidlu) of onions that had been delivered to D and about which C wrote a message (šipirtu) to B₁ and B₂ (apparently, urging them to deliver the onions to him). The present tablet is written in order not to forget (tahsistu la mašê) that A₁, C’s slave, and A₂ received 124000 strings (gidlu) of (the said 150000) onion strings on behalf of (ina našparti) C, from B₁ and B₂. and that 18000 of them belong to E. Written in the presence (ina ušuzzu) of 2 witnesses. No scribe.

A₁ = Arad-Bēl, slave of C; A₂ = Nabû-aplu-iddin/Šilāya/Esagilia; B₁ = Nabû-ēṭir; B₂ = Nādinu; C = Iddin-Marduk(/Iqīšāya//Nūr-Sîn); D = Zababa-ahu-iddin; E = Šūzubu