Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 1604
- Museum No.
- BM 92706
- Primary Publication
- Smith 1887 pl. 28
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P393827
- Place of issue
- Uruk city
- Regional setting
- Uruk region
- Places mentioned on Tablet
- Uruk city
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Early Neo-Babylonian
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Abpl. 20-I-20
- Inferred date
- ca. 649 BC
Digeanna
- Text Form
- Contract (various verbs)
- Legal Purpose
- Sale (ana ... nadānu; šâmu, sometimes ina muḫḫi)
- Transaction Type
- not applicable
- Formatting
- True
- Formatting remarks
- Horizontal rulings
- Format of the tablet
- portrait
- Private context
- True
Content
- Paraphrase
Ērišu (E) purchases a house in good repair (bītu epšu), roofed (bīt ruggubi), with a doorframe in place, a door and a lock installed (sippu daltu u sikkūru kunnū) from Ina-tēšî-ēṭir/Nabû-ēṭir (ITE).
The house plot is located in Uruk in the quarter (erṣetu) of Eḫilianki (Eḫilianki, presumably a mistake for Egiḫalanki). It is adjacent to the properties of Šulāya/Nabû-nāṣir, Bēl-aḫḫe-ēriba/Ēṭiru, Ērišu/Šāpiku, Ṣillāya/Nabû-aḫḫē-iddin and Ērišu/Nabû-bēlāni. This is the agreed area under sale, irrespective of whether the plot is found to be larger or smaller (atār u maṭû) (upon measuring).
The property belongs (pānu dagālu) to E for 1 mina and 15 shekels of silver in pieces (šibirtu). ITE relinquishes any future claims on behalf of his household.
Written in the presence of Nabû-ušebši, the Governor (šākin ṭēmi) of Uruk and 3 or 4 witnesses.
Scribe: not titled, presumably Šumāya/Aḫḫēšāya, whose name is separated from the names of other witnesses by a conjunction (u).
The document includes the clause concerning fingernail impressions of ITE, but the tablet is not marked with them.
On the upper edge, there is an archival annotation “house of Ina-tēšî-ēṭir".
Further Information
- last updated by
- Piotr Turowski, Feb. 25, 2026, 10:09 p.m.
- Imported (Person, Date)
- Piotr Turowski (04.02.2026)
- Legacy NaBuCCo ID
- 5653
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- San Nicolò, BR 8/7 (1951)
- Smith 1887