Basic Metadata

NaBuCCo ID
383
Museum No.
BM 31356
Primary Publication
Nbn. 355
Place of issue
Babylon city
Archive
Egibi/Nūr-Sîn
Period
Neo-Babylonian
Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
XXX. yy-VI-dd
Date BCE
547

Content

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

Further Information

Type and Content
Purchases
Imported (Person, Date)
Kathleen Abraham 15/04/2017
Legacy NaBuCCo ID
7195
Mentioned in the following publication(s)
Nbn.