Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 4014
- Museum No.
- YBC 04059
- Primary Publication
- YOS 6 005
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P305371
- Place of issue
- Babylon city
- Regional setting
- Babylon region
- Places mentioned on Tablet
- No place
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Neo-Babylonian
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Nbn. Acc.-XII-26
- Date BCE
- 16/03/554
Digeanna
- Van Driel Files
- 12 a
- Text Form
- Contract (various verbs)
- Legal Purpose
- Sale (ana ... nadānu; šâmu, sometimes ina muḫḫi)
- Transaction Type
- not applicable
- Format of the tablet
- landscape
- Private context
- True
Content
- Paraphrase
Nabû-mukīn-apli/Šuzubu (NMA) sold his slave Nabû-silim (NS), the barber, for 58 shekels of silver, the exact price (ḫarīṣu), to Šumu-ukīn/Bēl-zēri//Basia (ŠU).
NMA assumes guarantee against (suits brought by) a person acting unlawfully (or) a person bringing claims, (against suits claiming) the status of a free person which arises over NS.
NMA will bring Sîn-ana-bītišu and have him be present (as witness at the writing) of ŠUs document.
3 witnesses and the scribe Taqīš-Gula/Nabû-šumu-iddin//Basia.
Note
o.3: For "ana ŠÁM ḫa-ri-iṣ", see Petschow 1939, 45ff.
The text seems to belong to the Basia's archive.
Further Information
- last updated by
- Marie Young, July 23, 2026, 7 p.m.
- Imported (Person, Date)
- Marie Young (21/03/2025)
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- YOS 6