| NaBuCCo ID | 271 |
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| Museum No. | BM 32895+ |
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| Place of issue | |
| Type and content | Purchase |
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| Period | Each |
| Year BCE | 517 | Editio princeps | Dar. 152 |
| Paraphrase | Purchase of land. The tablet records the purchase of agricultural land; the text has been divided into paragraphs, marked on the tablet by a line drawn at the end of each one (and indicated below in the paraphrase by LINE). A purchases 3 Kor (40500 m2) of agricultural land (zēru) located in the open country (eqel ṣēri) from B: it consists partly of cultivated date garden (kirû gišimmarē zaqpi) bearing fruit (iṣṣi bilti) and partly of grain cultivated as well as newly cleared land (mērešu u taptû). It is located in Litamu, in front of the Uraš Gate, in the district (pīhatu) of Babylon. LINE Its upper side in the North borders on (the land of) C1 and C2, and the lower side in the South on (the property of) D; its upper front in the West is adjacent to the royal street (harrān šarri) on the bank (kišādu) of the Piqūdu Canal and the lower front in the East borders on the dam of the hanšus (makallû ša hanšānē) that is located at the lower end (šēpītu) of a 5000-field complex LINE The 1 kor (13500 m2) of land planted with trees (zēru zaqpu) is valued (šuqultu) at a ratio of 16,75 shekels of silver per 0;0.1 kor (450 m2) of land, resulting in a total value of 8 minas and 22 1/2 shekels of silver. The 2 kor (27000 m2) of grain cultivated as well as newly cleared land is valued at a ratio of 1 shekel of silver per 0;0.0.3 Kor (225 m2) of land, resulting in a total value of 2 minas of silver. A declares the equivalent for this land together with the seller B (A itti B mahīra nabû išām) to be 10 minas and 22 1/2 shekels of silver. He pays the total purchase price (šīmišu gamrūtu), plus 12 1/2 shekels of silver as additional payment (kî atri). LINE B acknowledges that he has received (mahāru) in total 10 minas and 35 shekels of silver in pieces (šibirtu), and he is satisfied (apālu G Stat). The parties agree that in future times there will be no claims or suits against each other, not even between members of their families – otherwise, any future claimant (pāqirānu) will have to repay twelvefold the silver he received. The field will be measured: should it be found smaller or larger than what was originally calculated, they will compensate each other (ahāmiš apālu ) according to the field-price ratio (mahīru) they agreed upon. A = Marduk-nāṣir-apli/Itti-Marduk-balāṭu//Egibi; B = Ea-aplu-iddin/Mušēzib-Marduk//Ṭābih-kāri; C1 = Nabû-ēṭir; C2 = Balāṭu; D = Gūzānu/Bā'iru |
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| Transliteration | Transliteration available on Achemenet |
| Babylonian Date (year-month-day): | Dar. yy-XII-dd |