Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 637
- Museum No.
- IM 065074
- Primary Publication
- BaM 5 (1970), 193-304 06
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P489809
- Place of issue
- Uruk city
- Regional setting
- Uruk region
- Archive
- Šamšēa
- Period
- Early Neo-Babylonian
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Kan. 17-V-13
Digeanna
- Text Form
- Contract (various verbs)
- Legal Purpose
- Sale (ana ... nadānu; šâmu, sometimes ina muḫḫi)
- Transaction Type
- not applicable
- Formatting
- True
- Formatting remarks
- Horizontal rulings(?) (see disperacances between a transliteration and a copy)
- Format of the tablet
- portrait
- Private context
- True
Content
- Paraphrase
Nabû-ušallim/Bēl-iddin(//Šamšēa) purchases a baker’s prebend (nuḫatimmūtu) from Nādinu/Bēl-ušallim (N).
The prebendary service is performed before Ištar of Uruk from the 1st until the 15th day of m.I.
1 mina 15 shekels of refined (ṣarpu) (silver) in pieces (šibirtu) are declared (nabû) as its purchase price (maḫīru, šīmu). It is paid together with (adi) a supplementary payment of 5 shekels of refined (silver), either included or added to the total. N relinquishes any future claims on behalf of his household. Non-compliance will result in a 12-fold repayment.
Written in the presence of Nāˀid-Marduk/Ūmu-19-uṣur, the Governor (šākin ṭēmi) of Uruk, and 6 witnesses.
Scribe: Mukīn-zēri/Zabidā.
The document includes a clause concerning fingernail impressions (of N?), but their presence or absence is not indicated in the edition.
Notes
Mukīn-zēri/Zabidā was a chief of fifty (rab hanšê), see BIN 1 159.
- Legacy Paraphrase
Purchase of a prebend: A purchases a share (isqu) of the prebend of the baker (nuhatimmūtu) before Ištar of Uruk for 15 days, from the 1st to the 15th day of Nisān (I) of the following year (Kandalanu 18), for 1 mina and 15 shekels of silver in pieces (šibirtu), together with an additional payment (atru) of 5 shekels of silver, from B. The transaction is concluded in the presence of (ina ušuzzi) the governor (šākin ṭēmi) of Uruk (Naˀid-Marduk). 6 witnesses and the scribe. Instead of a seal impression (kunukku), fingernail impression (ṣupru) (of the seller).
A = Nabû-ušallim/Bēl-iddin; B = Nādin/Bēl-ušallim; Scribe = Mukīn-zēri/Zabīdāya- Transliteration
- https://www.ebl.lmu.de/library/IM.65074
Further Information
- Type and Content
- Purchases
- last updated by
- Piotr Turowski, Sept. 17, 2026, 5:57 p.m.
- Imported (Person, Date)
- Melanie Gross (26/05/2016)
- Legacy NaBuCCo ID
- 5430
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- BaM 5 (1970), 193-304
- Folia Orientalia 20 (1979, ersch. 1980) 175-184