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BM.42392 (ebl:BM.42392)

ARCHIVAL > Legal > Debt Note, Loan, Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE

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Designation	BM.42392
ID	ebl:BM.42392
Museum no.	BM.42392
Collection	Babylon
Language	Akkadian
Period	Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
Genre	ARCHIVAL > Legal > Debt Note, Loan

Machine English (draft)

Machine draft. Machine English from montycrypto/atf-to-english (atf-en-best-v2, 2026-10-05), generated line by line from the source transliteration (not reproduced here). It is unreviewed and is not a scholarly translation.

Line	Machine English (draft)
top 19	Month Sivan (III), 9th day, 5th year.
reverse 18	Ahheaya, son of
reverse 13	he will not live.
top 20	Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon.
obverse 4	Nebuchadnezzar, son of Muezib-Bel
obverse 2	of Marduk-zru-ibni
obverse 5	son of Buu and Bel-ah-iddin
obverse 3	son of Adad-ilta-ibni
obverse 7	In the month Marchesvan (VIII), the silver which is not lost
reverse 17	and the scribe, Muezib-Bel, son of
reverse 12	(Property) of Marduk-zru-ibni is the guarantor.
reverse 16	Bel-um-ikun, son of Nabu-ibni, descendant of
reverse 11	All of them from the city and the steppe are responsible for the clearing of claims.
reverse 15	Iddin-ahi, son of Adad-uballi, descendant of Egibi
bottom 10	before
bottom 9	Two times, he who did not raise a claim
obverse 6	son of Ahluri, descendant of Madukku
reverse 14	Witnesses: Bel-ah-iddin, son of a brewer
bottom 8	he shall give, he shall have one child
obverse 1	1 mina 11 shekels of silver,

Sources & licences

electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich · MIT (eBL Zenodo dataset); platform terms unverified · electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich, https://www.ebl.lmu.de/ ; Zenodo dataset (MIT)

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