Tablet W 18213,21

NaBuCCo ID 3864
Museum No. W 18213,21
CDLI P-Identifier
Place of issue
Type and content Indeterminate legal text
Archive
Period NB
Year BCE 571
Paraphrase

Undetermined legal text. Very fragmentary.

Only the first lines of the obverse are still readable: they mention a date, the 20th of Addar, and the individuals involved in the deal. These are: A, an unnamed freedwoman (zakītu) of the Lady of Uruk, her/his 2 full-grown daughters(*), and “the associates” (itbāru). Rest broken off. On the reverse, only a list of 3+ witnesses is extant, with the name of the scribe: Šamaš-šumu-ukīn/Nabû-šumu-iddin.

(*) itbaru is in feminine plural, this would suggest a reading “daughters” hence perhaps read [u x] ˹DUMU.MÍŠ˺-šú although Gehlken’s copy has “DUMU” sons. Needs collation.

A = Bania/Nabû-zēru-ušabši

Transliteration
Babylonian Date (year-month-day): Nbk. 33-XII-10