Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 5896
- Museum No.
- YBC 07424
- Primary Publication
- YOS 17 003
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P308367
- Place of issue
- Uruk city
- Regional setting
- Uruk region
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Neo-Babylonian
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Nbk. 03-XII-09
- Date BCE
- 08/03/601
Digeanna
- Van Driel Files
- 8 a
- Text Form
- Contract (various verbs)
- Legal Purpose
- Sale (ana ... nadānu; šâmu, sometimes ina muḫḫi)
- Transaction Type
- not applicable
- Format of the tablet
- portrait
- Sealings
- True
- Private context
- True
Content
- Paraphrase
Purchase contract for a house in good repair (bītu epšu), roofed (bīt ruggubi), with a doorframe in place, and with a door and a lock installed (sippu daltu u sikkūru kunnū).
The location of the house in Uruk falls within a broken section of the tablet.
Nabû-zēru-ibni/Nergal-naṣir//Išparu (NZI) agreed with Nanāya-ēreš/Ardia (NE) the price of 12 minas and 40 shekels of silver and NE purchased it.
NZI received from NE the full purchase price of 12 minas and 40 shekels of silver with a supplementary payment (atru) of 23 shekels in silver pieces (šibirtu).
NZI relinquishes any future claims on behalf of his family. Non-compliance will result in a 12-fold repayment.
A 1/3 shekel silver KUR.RA-garment was set aside (for a potential) claimant
6 witnesses and the scribe Nabû-šāpik-uṣur/Bēl-īpuš//Sîn-šāpik
Clause concerning the fingernail impressions of NZI, the seller. The tablet bears his fingernail impressions.
Note
The father's name of Nabû-zēru-ibni is reconstructed on the basis of YBC 9431, dated to Nbk II 23. He may have been the brother of Nādinu/Nergal-nāṣir//Išparu.
Further Information
- created by
- Sarah Grosser, Oct. 13, 2025, 9:05 a.m.
- last updated by
- Marie Young, Aug. 5, 2026, 9:42 a.m.