Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 7005
- Museum No.
- BM 114531
- Primary Publication
- AoF 50/2 (2023), 206-236 3
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P602182
- Place of issue
- [...]-A-KAL
- Regional setting
- Uruk region
- Places mentioned on Tablet
- Uruk city
- Archive
- Damiqu
- Dossier
- House of Nanāya-ēreš
- Period
- Neo-Babylonian
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Nbk. 22-XII-30
- Date BCE
- 23/03/582
Digeanna
- Text Form
- Contract (various verbs)
- Legal Purpose
- Sale (ana ... nadānu; šâmu, sometimes ina muḫḫi)
- Transaction Type
- not applicable
- Formatting remarks
- Horizontal rulings
- Format of the tablet
- portrait
- Private context
- True
Content
- Paraphrase
Marduk-erība/Nergal-iddin//Ea-ṣalam-ilī purchases a house in good repair (bītu epšu), roofed (bīt ruggubi), with a doorframe in place, a door and a lock installed (sippu daltu u sikkūru kunnū) from Mušēzib-Bēl/Nanāya-ēreš (MB).
The house plot is located in Uruk in the quarter (erṣetu) of the (tp)Ditch of Uṣur-amassu (ḫarru ša Uṣur-amassu). It is adjacent to the (tp)Ditch of Uṣur-amassu and the house plots of Ibni-Ištar/Kudurru//Ekur-zākir, Šullumu/Pir’u//Asû and Ea-dāyyan, the Deputy Governor of the Sealand (šanû Tâmti). This is the agreed area under sale, irrespective of whether the plot is found to be larger or smaller (atār u maṭû) (upon measuring).
50 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 shekel. MB relinquishes any future claims on behalf of his household.
7 witnesses.
Scribe: Nāˀid-Marduk/Marduk-zēru-ibni.
The document includes the clause concerning fingernail impressions of MB, and the tablet is marked with them.
Notes
YBC 7424 (YOS 17 3) and BM 117435 (AoF 50/2 (2023), 206-236, no. 2) are retroacts for this document.
Further Information
- created by
- Piotr Turowski, Jan. 30, 2026, 5:48 p.m.
- last updated by
- Piotr Turowski, Feb. 5, 2026, 10:14 a.m.
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- AoF 50/2 (2023), 206-236