Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 4016
- Museum No.
- YBC 16216
- Primary Publication
- YOS 19 001
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P312829
- Place of issue
- Uruk city
- Regional setting
- Uruk city
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Neo-Babylonian
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Nbn. 14-IX-13
- Date BCE
- 11/12/542
Digeanna
- Van Driel Files
- 8 a
- Text Form
- Contract (various verbs)
- Legal Purpose
- Sale (ana ... nadānu; šâmu, sometimes ina muḫḫi)
- Transaction Type
- transactional (janus)
- Domain (Eanna)
- Higher-order management and policies
- Formatting
- True
- Formatting remarks
- section ruling
- Format of the tablet
- portrait
- Sealings
- True
Content
- Paraphrase
Two houses, measuring 40 qanû 2 ammatu in total are sold (maḫāru) by Mušallim-Marduk/Nabû-ētir-napšāti//Šigûa to Eanna. Eanna pays 40 talents of copper, 1 talent of tin, and 10 minas of blue wool to Šamaš-zēru-ibni/Nanāya-iddin//Ḫanbi out of the treasury of Eanna. They are neighbouring houses of Mušallim-Marduk/Nabû-ēṭir-napšāti//Šigûa, Ṭābia/Nabû-nādin-šumi//Ḫunzû and the sons of Nabû-aḫḫē-šullim//Šangû-Ninurta, Rēmūt/Nabû-šumu-līšir//Kurī.
In the presence of Kurbanni-Marduk/Zēria//Sîn-damāqu, the High Priest (šatammu) of Eanna, Ilī-rēmannī, the Royal Overseer (bēl piqitti) of Eanna, 10 witnesses among whom overseers of various professional groups and 4 scribes of Eanna.
5 cylinder seal impressions (stamped)
Further Information
- created by
- Matthias Adelhofer, March 25, 2025, 12:26 p.m.
- last updated by
- Marie Young, Aug. 26, 2026, 1:21 p.m.