Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 7120
- Museum No.
- VAT 08495
- Primary Publication
- AnOr 9 13
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P572715
- Place of issue
- Uruk city
- Regional setting
- Uruk region
- Places mentioned on Tablet
- Uruk city
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Neo-Babylonian
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- XXX. 22-I-20
- Inferred date
- Presumably Ashurbanipal (ca. 647 BCE)
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-iddin/Bēlšunu purchases a house in good repair (bītu epšu) with a doorframe in place (sippu raksu) from Bēl-šumu-iškun/Marduk-nāṣir (BŠI).
The house plot is located in Uruk in the quarter (erṣetu) of the (tp)Ditch of Nanāya (ḫarru ša Nanāya), and measures 30 × 18 cubits. It is adjacent to the street(s) (e.sír sila) and the house plot of Nādin-aḫi/Lâbâši.
19 shekels of silver in pieces (šibirtu) are declared (maḫīru nabû) as the purchase price. It is received with (adi) a supplementary payment (atru) of ½ a shekel of silver. BŠI relinquishes any future claims on behalf of his household.
Written in the presence of Kudurru, the Governor (šākin ṭēmi) of Uruk, and 4 witnesses introduced as elders (šību).
Scribe: Nabû-iddin/Ibāya.
The document includes the clause concerning the fingernail impressions of BŠI, and the tablet is marked with them.
Notes
At the end of the document, there is an additional patrimonic without the name of person bearing it ("son of Šumāya"). It could be an archival notation or a partialy written name of an omitted witness.
Further Information
- created by
- Piotr Turowski, Feb. 11, 2026, 9:18 p.m.
- last updated by
- Piotr Turowski, Feb. 15, 2026, 9:07 p.m.
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- AnOr 9
- San Nicolò, BR 8/7 (1951)