Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 7061
- Museum No.
- FLP 1533
- Primary Publication
- Dillard 1975
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P460041
- Place of issue
- Babylon city
- Regional setting
- Uruk region
- Places mentioned on Tablet
- Uruk city
- Archive
- Nūr-Sîn
- Period
- Neo-Babylonian
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Nbk. 17-XII-13
- Date BCE
- 02/03/587
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 a plot with land cultivated for grain (pī šulpi) and planted with date palms from Eanna-līpī-uṣur/Rēmūtu//Sîn-leqe-unninnī (ELU). This is the land that ELU claimed back (ina tapqerti târu D) as part of his patrimony (akī bīt abbūti).
This plot is a part of the ‘fifty cubit’-field complex (hanšû) of Arad-Gula/Nādinu//Sîn-leqe-unninnī (AG). It is located in the district (pīhātu) of Uruk by the (tp)Canal of Guzaru (nār-Guzāru) and stretches from the lower side of the city further down (ultu šēpīt āli adi šupāl āli). Its narrow sides are 250 cubits long. It is adjacent to the properties of Nabû-ēṭir/Ukkumu//Ekur-zākir and AG (called here the “giver” (nādinānu) of the field), and the plot that was part of the same property (libbi eqli).
46 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. ELU relinquishes any future claims on his behalf (or his household).
10 witnesses.
Scribe: ELU.
The document includes the clause concerning fingernail impressions of ELU, and the tablet is marked with them.
Further Information
- created by
- Piotr Turowski, Feb. 4, 2026, 7:02 p.m.
- last updated by
- Piotr Turowski, April 11, 2026, 12:16 p.m.
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- Beaulieu 2000a
- Dillard 1975