Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 6729
- Museum No.
- VAT 09193
- Primary Publication
- AnOr 8 08
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P550483
- Place of issue
- Babylon city
- Regional setting
- Uruk region
- Places mentioned on Tablet
- Babylon city
- Uruk city
- Archive
- Nūr-Sîn
- Period
- Neo-Babylonian
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Nbk. 19-XI-09
- Date BCE
- 05/02/585
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
Marduk-šākin-šumi/Taqīš-Gula//Nūr-Sîn purchases an arable field (zēru) cultivated for crops (pī šulpi) from Nergal-iddin/Nabû-dannu//Nusku-aplu-iddin (NI).
The field is located in the province (pīhātu) of Uruk in the meadowland (ugāru) of the (tp)Ditch of Lâbâši (Ḫarru-ša-Lâbâši), and its narrow sides are 300 cubits long. It is adjacent to the (tp)Ditch of Lâbâši, the granary (bīt karê) and the properties of Balāssu/Bānītušu, and streches along other neighbors (akî itê išaddad).
25 shekels of silver in pieces (šibirtu) are declared (maḫīru nabû) as the purchase price. It is received with (adi) a supplementary payment (atru) of 5 shekels of silver and 1 KUR.RA-garment. NI relinquishes any future claims on behalf of his household.
7 witnesses.
Scribe: Iddin-Nabû/Šākin-šumi//Gimil-Nanāya.
The document includes the clause concerning fingernail impressions of NI, and the tablet is marked with them.
Notes
For the interpretation of bīt karê, see Kleber 2021: 233-234.
- Transliteration
- https://www.ebl.lmu.de/library/VAT.9193
Further Information
- created by
- Piotr Turowski, Jan. 19, 2026, 6:27 p.m.
- last updated by
- Piotr Turowski, May 23, 2026, 6:53 p.m.
- Imported (Person, Date)
- Piotr Turowski
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- AnOr 8
- BR 6 (1960)
- Kleber 2021