Basic Metadata

NaBuCCo ID
3885
Museum No.
BM 114556
CDLI P-Identifier
Place of issue
No place
Type and Content
Purchases
Archive
None
Dossier
None
Period
-
Year BCE
None
Editio princeps
Jankovic 2013 (unpubl. PhD diss.)

Content

Paraphrase

Draft of a house sale of a seized house. No date, no witnesses.

Undated and unwitnessed draft recording the measurements of the sold house. The house originally belonged to A1 and fA2, his wife, and was transferred (manû, N) to the property (makkūru) of Eanna in lieu of () barley arrears (rēhu) charged against A1.

The Eanna temple sales this house to o B, for the called (nabû) price of 12 minas 20 shekels of silver.

The text first gives the measurements and location of the house: south: 41 cubits: the lower side, next to C1’s house, and next to the plots (qanû) of the Lady-of-Uruk, in which the two boatman (malāhu) temple-serfs (širku) C2 and C3 live. west: 50 cubits: upper frontage, next to C4’s plot, property (makkūru) of the king, at the disposal (ina qātē) of C5, the major-domo (ša muhhi bītāni).

west (sic): 50 cubits: lower frontage, next to C6’s house. In total: 42 reeds and 2 fingers.

 

A1= Ileˀi-Marduk/Nabû-šumu-ukīn//Eṭēru, husband of fA2); A2= fBusasa/Iqīša-Marduk, wife of A1; B= Šumu-ukīn/Marduk-ēreš//(empty space); C1= Nabû-zēru-šubši/(erasure); C2= Nanāya-iddin/UK-KUD-ili, temple-serf (širku); C3= Ēṭeršu, boatman (malāhu) and a temple-serf (širku); C4= Mūrānu; C5= Nidintu, the major-domo (ša muhhi bītāni); C6= Šulāya/Rēmūt

 

Transliteration
Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
-. yy-mm-dd

further information

Imported (Person, Date)
Yuval Levavi, Kathleen Abraham (08/09/2023)
Legacy NaBuCCo ID
None