Tablet BM 26523

NaBuCCo ID 622
Museum No. BM 26523
CDLI P-Identifier
Place of issue
Type and content Court protocol
Archive
Period ENB
Year BCE 676
Editio princeps Zadok and Zadok 2005 1
Paraphrase Settlement of a dispute between father and son: Father B and his son A have mutually agreed upon (gamālu D, see comment Zadok and Zadok 2005: 626–7) that 735 square cubits (183.75 m2) of land located in front of the city gate which has been given to C1 as well as 392 square cubits (98 m2) of a house bordering on the house of D which have been given to C2, together with 4 minas of silver, belong to A. 8 witnesses (including Šamaš-zēru-iqīša/Arkāt-ilī-damqāti, governor [šākin ṭēmi] of Borsippa; Nabû-nādin-šumi/Nūr-Papsukkal, temple-enterer [ērib bīti] and bishop [šatammu] of Ezida) and the scribe, also identified as writer of the tablet (šāṭir ṭuppi).
 
A = Bēl-ikṣur/Zarātu; B = Zarātu, father of A; C1 = Ša-Nabû-šū; C2 = Silim-ilu; D = Useppi; Scribe = Bēl-ahhē-iddin/Barīhu
 
 
Transliteration None
Babylonian Date (year-month-day): Esar. yy-XI-dd