Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 5372
- Museum No.
- GCBC 00737
- Primary Publication
- GCCI 1 407
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P294636
- Place of issue
- Uruk city
- Regional setting
- Uruk city
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Neo-Babylonian
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Nbn. 15-II-05
- Date BCE
- 23/04/541
Digeanna
- Van Driel Files
- 12 a
- Text Form
- Contract (various verbs)
- Legal Purpose
- Business venture (ana h̬arrāni (various verbs))
- Transaction Type
- not applicable
- Domain (Eanna)
- Higher-order management and policies
- Format of the tablet
- landscape
- Private context
- True
Content
- Paraphrase
Nabû-bān-aḫi/Mušēzib-Bēl//Rēmūt-Ea (NBA) and Šamaš-aḫu-iddin/Nabû-bān-aḫi//Rēmūt-Ea (ŠAI) each invest (našû) 2 minas of silver for a business venture (ḫarrānu). Whatever is made on top of said 4 minas of silver in the city or abroad, (they will share).
The location of a house is described: It is (by the house?) adjacent to the house of Šamaš-mukīn-apli/Nādin//Bābūtu, on the wide street (sūqu rabû), adjacent to the house of Ina-ṣilli-Bēl, above it is the house of NBA (…). This (the house?) is apart from the share of (broken PN).
Reference is made to a transfer of property (kanāku … šudgulu); subsequently, assets (partly broken) are stated to be excluded from consideration for the joint trading venture of NBA and ŠAI. These include debt notes (u’iltu) to the credit of Bēl-aḫḫē-iddin.
Šullumāya son of <...> (patronym forgotten by the scribe) will work for the business venture (našpartu … alāku) together with NBA and ŠAI.
4 witnesses are listed. The scribe is Nādinu/Bēl-šumu-iškun//Kurī, in Uruk.
Further Information
- created by
- Dylan Schimek, July 31, 2025, 7:41 a.m.
- last updated by
- Dylan Schimek, Oct. 5, 2026, 3:39 p.m.