Basic Metadata

NaBuCCo ID
6623
Museum No.
CST 225
Primary Publication
Zadok 2019 B.I.3
CDLI P-Identifier
P462430
Place of issue
Ālu-ša-Šumu-ukīn
Regional setting
Uruk region
Archive
Basia
Period
Neo-Babylonian
Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
Nbn. 01-VIII-10
Date BCE
27/10/555

Digeanna

Text Form
Contract (various verbs)
Legal Purpose
Sale (ana ... nadānu; šâmu, sometimes ina muḫḫi)
Format of the tablet
landscape
Private context
True

Content

Paraphrase

Bābilāya/Ḫaspi (B) volunarily (ina ḫūd libbi) sells his slave (lamutānu) (f)Alākšu-lūmur and her 1-year-old daughter (f)Kidu-ilāni to Kalbāya/Iqīšāya//Basia for the ḫarīṣu-price of 45 shekels of silver. B guarantees to take action if a contestant (sēḫû) or a claimant (pāqirānu) comes forward with claims concerning the slavesʼ status of freemen (mār banûtu) or status of royal slave (arad šarrūti).

3 witnesses.

Scribe: Anu-mukīn-apli/Innin-tabni-uṣur//Gimil-Nanāya.

 

Ālu-ša-Šumu-ukīn is called an estate (šīḫu) of Kār-Nanāya.


Further Information

created by
Małgorzata Sandowicz, Jan. 5, 2026, 8:32 p.m.
last updated by
Małgorzata Sandowicz, Jan. 5, 2026, 8:32 p.m.
Mentioned in the following publication(s)
Zadok 2019