Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 6607
- Museum No.
- VAT 18654
- Primary Publication
- VS 20 086
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P373263
- Place of issue
- Uruk city
- Regional setting
- Uruk region
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Neo-Babylonian
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Nbk IV. 13-XI-25
- Date BCE
- 26/02/591
Digeanna
- Text Form
- Contract (various verbs)
- Legal Purpose
- Inheritance Division (ṭuppi zitti; zittu ... itti aḫāmeš zâzu, zuwwuzu)
- Transaction Type
- not applicable
- Format of the tablet
- portrait
- Private context
- True
Content
- Paraphrase
Nabû-šumu-līšir/Nabû-šumu-ukīn (NŠL) and his brother Rēmūt-Nabû/Nabû-šumu-ukīn (RN) divide their inheritance. The share (zittu) of NŠL consists of (the slaves) (f)Nanāya-kēširat, Linūḫ-libbi-Ištar, Tukulti-Ištar, Ištar-rēṣûa, (f)Šaš-šaparti, (f)Nanāya-šumaḫûa, and (f)Ina-Eanna-lūmuršu, the main house in which (their father) Nabû-šumu-ukīn lived, the house of Bēl-udūa, (and) a field at the canal (tp)Ḫarru-ša-Nanāya. RN receives (the slaves) (f)Ša-Nanāya-uddu, (f)Tuqnāya, (and) Ša-Nanāya-bāni, a garden, which is under the management (ina qātē) of Nabû-zēru-ukīn/Ša-Nabû-šū, and a share in the fifty-cubit complex located at the openings of the ditch (ḫarru).
2 witnesses.
Scribe: Rēmūt-Nabû/Nabû-šumu-ukīn.
The quasi-duplicate of this tablet (YOS 17, 348) is better preserved. It was written by another scribe, and before a third witness, who is not listed here.
Further Information
- created by
- Julia Giessler, Jan. 5, 2026, 1:48 p.m.
- last updated by
- Julia Giessler, Jan. 19, 2026, 4:21 p.m.
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- Joannès 1987
- Tarasewicz 2023