Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 6916
- Museum No.
- Unknown
- Primary Publication
- RA 24 (1927), 38-41 4
- CDLI P-Identifier
- Unknown
- Place of issue
- Uruk city
- Regional setting
- Uruk region
- Places mentioned on Tablet
- Uruk city
- Archive
- Kurī A
- Period
- Neo-Babylonian
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Nbk. 14-XII-21
- Date BCE
- 13/03/590
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
- Format of the tablet
- portrait
- Private context
- True
Content
- Paraphrase
Nadnāya/Aplāya/Kurī (N) purchases a plot with fallow land (kišubbû) and planted with date palms in Uruk from Balāssu/Marduk-zēru-ibni/Ḫunzû (B).
The field is located in Uruk in the quarter (erṣetu) of the (tp)Ditch of Nanāya (ḫarru ša Nanāya), and its narrow sides are 60 cubits long. It is adjacent to the royal road (ḫarrān šarri), the (tp)Ditch of Nanāya, and the properties of Aplāya/Ša-Nabû-šū//Kurī, the father of N, Innin-zēru-ibni/Nadnāya//Kurī, the son of N, and Nabû-aḫḫē-iddin/Nergal-ušallim//Nūr-Sîn (the High Priest (šatammu) of Eanna) .
25 shekels of silver in pieces (šibirtu) are declared (maḫīru nabû) ast he purchase price. It is received with (adi) a supplementary payment (atru) of a ½ of shekel. B relinquishes any future claims on behalf of his household.
4 witnesses.
Scribe: Kidin-Marduk/Nabû-aḫu-iddin//Kalab-Innin-Ištar-u-Nanāya (or: Ur-Innin-Ištar-u-Nanāya).
The document includes the clause concerning fingernail impressions of B, and the tablet is marked with them.
Notes
For the scribe’s family(?) name, see also OIP 122 10.
Further Information
- created by
- Piotr Turowski, Jan. 29, 2026, 10:07 a.m.
- last updated by
- Piotr Turowski, Feb. 5, 2026, 11:39 a.m.
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- RA 24 (1927), 38-41