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