Babylonian Contract Tablets in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
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108. It is curious that the simple numeral, two vertical wedges, suffices to denote the "two" persons. — 14. The scribe wrote apal instead of apal-Su Sa; the latter usually pre- cedes the father's name, while the former precedes the family name. Some other rea- son, however, may have prompted this omission. — 18. Dated in the year549 B. C, as the two preceding tablets. — 19. The determinative mat is omitted as in 14, 37. Baniatuesagila had loaned her brother, the priest of Ninip, and his Eighth... Year of Nabonidus. 19 wife her slave Sinunu for 20 shekels wages. Bania was not rich enough to pay the amount immediately, so he paid 10 shekels at once and promised to pay the remainder during the year. Until this agreement had been complied with, the slave of Bania and his wife was to remain as security with his sister. Even among so closely related members of a family legal foi-ms had to be complied with I ■ NO. IT, FRONT. A} I ^1 -^
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