Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 6728
- Museum No.
- VAT 08446
- Primary Publication
- AnOr 8 03
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P550478
- Place of issue
- Babylon city
- Regional setting
- Uruk region
- Places mentioned on Tablet
- Uruk city
- Archive
- Rīm-Anu
- Period
- Neo-Babylonian
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Nbk. 03-IX-22
- Date BCE
- 16/12/602
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; fingernail impressions
- Format of the tablet
- portrait
- Private context
- True
Content
- Paraphrase
Nabû-šumu-ēreš/Nabû-aḫḫē-šullim//Rīm-Anu (see Notes) purchases a parcel with a ruined house (bītu abtu) and unbuilt land (kišubbû) from Nadnāya/Nabû-ēṭir//Bēl-eṭēru (N).
The plot is located in Uruk in the quarter (erṣetu) of the (tp)Egiḫalhal (Egiḫalhal, presumably a mistake for (tp)Egiḫalanki), and measures 35 × 35 cubits. It is adjacent to a narrow street and the house plots of Bēl-aḫḫē-iddin/Bēl-īpuš//Ekur-zākir, Nabû-apkal-ilāni/Mukīn-[…]//Rīm-Anu (or: Nabû-apkal-ilāni/Du-[…]//Rīm-Anu), Tabnēa/[...]-nāṣir (or: Tabnēa/[…]-uṣur), and [...]/[…]-ibni. This is the agreed area under sale, irrespective of whether the plot is found to be larger or smaller (atār u maṭû mala bašû) (upon measuring).
1 mina and 30 shekels of silver in pieces (šibirtu) are declared (maḫīru nabû) as the purchase price. It is received with (adi) a supplementary payment (atru) of 1 KUR.RA-garment. N relinquishes any future claims on behalf of his household.
8 witnesses.
Scribe: Dummuqu/Nabû-ēṭir//Sippê.
The document includes the clause concerning the fingernail impressions of N, and the tablet is marked with them.
Notes
The reading 'Nabû-šumu-ēreš' may be a mistake for 'Ištar-šumu-ēreš', who was a well-known member of the Rīm-Anu family.
Further Information
- created by
- Piotr Turowski, Jan. 19, 2026, 6:02 p.m.
- last updated by
- Piotr Turowski, Aug. 29, 2026, 5:21 p.m.
- Imported (Person, Date)
- Piotr Turowski
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- AnOr 8
- San Nicolò, BR 8/7 (1951)