Tablet BM 31217

NaBuCCo ID 363
Museum No. BM 31217
CDLI P-Identifier
Place of issue
Type and content Memorandum (taẖsistu ana la mašê)
Archive
Period NB
Year BCE 550
Editio princeps Nbn. 160
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
Transliteration None
Babylonian Date (year-month-day): Nbn. yy-V-dd