Tablet BM 31356

NaBuCCo ID 383
Museum No. BM 31356
CDLI P-Identifier
Place of issue
Type and content Purchase
Archive
Period NB
Year BCE 547
Editio princeps Nbn. 355
Paraphrase About the purchase of land: undertaking to pay the purchase price to the seller’s creditors.
A undertakes to pay 55 shekels of silver to fB1 and her son B2: this sum corresponds to the price of a field purchased from fC1, fC2 and fC3, and the silver is his at his disposal (ina pānīšu). fB1 and B2 are the seller’s creditors (rāšû): A will pay them off on the 25th of Ulūl (VI), as established in a trial whose verdict has been written down in a document that fB1 and B2 handed over to A. Names of 5 witnesses (the judges, dayyāne) and the scribe. The trial mentioned in this text is recorded in BM31961.
 
A = Nabû-ahhē-iddin/Šulāya//Egibi; fB1 = fHibbuṣu/Marduk-šarrani; B2 = Mušēzib-Marduk, son of fB1; fC1 = fNadāya; fC2 = fIna-Esagila-rāmat; fC3 = fBēlilitu
Transliteration None
Babylonian Date (year-month-day): Nbn. yy-VI-dd