Tablet BM 31328

NaBuCCo ID 480
Museum No. BM 31328
CDLI P-Identifier
Place of issue
Type and content Receipt
Archive
Period Each
Year BCE 519
Editio princeps Dar. 70
Paraphrase Receipt of silver, return of the purchase price to the seller.
A purchased the (slave-)cook C from B by proxy. D1, the middleman, took (našû) 5/6 minas of silver from him in order to pay (eṭēru) the price for the cook to the seller. However, it turned out that D1 did not pay (eṭēru) to the seller. In the present document, A, the seller acknowledges that he received ( eṭēru) the outstanding 5/6 minas of silver and the interest on it from D2, the middleman’s son, according to the promissory note.  Names of 4 witnesses and the scribe.
 
A = Bēl-nādin-apli/Nabû-mukīn-zēri//Šigûa; B = Nabû-kāṣir/Nūr-Sîn//Iddin-Papsukkal; C = Nabû-silīm, a (slave?-)cook (MU);  D1 = Itti-Marduk-balāṭu/Šulāya//Egibi; D2 = Marduk-nāṣir-apli/Itti-Marduk-balāṭu//Egibi, son of D1
Transliteration Transliteration available on Achemenet
Babylonian Date (year-month-day): Dar. yy-V-dd