Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 3559
- Museum No.
- YBC 03861
- Primary Publication
- YOS 7 114
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P305219
- Place of issue
- Uruk city
- Regional setting
- Uruk region
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Early Achaemenid
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Cam. 01-V-05
- Date BCE
- 06/08/529
Digeanna
- Van Driel Files
- 3 d
- Text Form
- Contract (various verbs)
- Legal Purpose
- Exchange (šupêlu)
- Transaction Type
- not applicable
- Domain (Eanna)
- Higher-order management and policies
- Format of the tablet
- landscape
- Private context
- True
Content
- Paraphrase
Bēl-naʼid (BN), courtier (ša rēši) and oblate of Ištar of Uruk had sold his slave Nabû-bēl-uṣur (NBU) for the full price of 1 mina of silver to Ṭābia/Nabû-šumu-iškun (Ṭ), at whose house NBU never arrived. In order to compensate Ṭ for the silver, BN gives him his slave (qallu) Šamaš-iddin, a lame (ḫummuru) leather worker in exchange for NBU. BN guarantees against contestants (sēḫû) and claimants (paqirānu).
Written in the presence of: Rēmūt-Bēl/Bunnānu (restoration of the patronym based on YOS 7 107: 14), Chief of Fodder (rab kissati), Nabû-mukīn-apli/Nādinu//Dābibī, High Priest (šatammu) of Eanna, and Nabû-zēru-iddin/Bēlšunu, royal Horse Handler (šušānu), Šalam-ilī/Abī-Iltar, royal Aramaic scribe (sēpiru ša šarri restoration based on YOS 7 107: 17).
4 witnesses.
Scribe: Gimillu/Innin-zēru-iddin.
- Legacy Paraphrase
Bēl-na’id, the ša rēši (courtier) and temple oblate, sold his slave Nabû-bēl-uṣur for 1 mina of silver to Ṭābiya/Nabû-šumu-iškun, but Nabû-bēl-uṣur never entered the house of Ṭābiya. In compensation Bēl-na’id provides to Ṭābiya a crippled slave (ḫummuru), Šamaš-iddin, who is also a leather worker. The proceedings are witnessed by Rēmūt-Bēl/Bunānu, rab kissati, Nabû-mukīn-apli/Nādinu//Dābibī, bishop (šatammu) of Eanna, and Nabû-aḫu-iddin, royal representative (ša rēš šarri) and commissioner (bēl piqitti) of Eanna. Four further witnesses and Gimillu/Innin-zēru-iddin, the scribe.
Further Information
- Type and Content
- Court protocols
- last updated by
- Julia Giessler, May 7, 2025, 8:06 a.m.
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- Dougherty 1923