Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 718
- Museum No.
- CBS 12804 + 12501
- Primary Publication
- BE 08 001 + 150
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P267147
- Place of issue
- Nippur city
- Period
- Early Neo-Babylonian
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Abpl. 26-X-dd
- Date BCE
- 643
Digeanna
- Text Form
- Contract (various verbs)
- Legal Purpose
- Sale (ana ... nadānu; šâmu, sometimes ina muḫḫi)
- Format of the tablet
- portrait
Content
- Paraphrase
Purchase of wasteland: A purchases from B wasteland (eqlu kišubbû), for [x] minas and 15 shekels of silver, including silver for [x] kor of barley for the seller’s fingernail impression. The plot is located in the district (erṣetu) of the Gate of LUGAL.GU(D).SI.SÁ inside of GIR.GI.LUM.KI (= Nippur?). Its upper side (in the north) borders on a property of the buyer A and on a house of C1 and its lower side (in the south) on the property of C2. Its upper front (in the east) borders on the property of C3 and its lower front (in the west) on another property of the buyer. Its upper side measures 34 cubits (17 m), its lower side 30 cubits (15 m), its upper front 32 cubits (16 m) and its lower front 21(?) cubits (10.5 m). 11+ witnesses (including C3) and the scribe, also defined as sealer of the tablet (kānik ṭuppi). Instead of a seal impression (kunukku), fingernail impression (ṣupru) of the seller.
A = Aplāya//Šumāya; B = Nergal-uballiṭ//Hayānu; C1 = Nergal-uballiṭ//Nabû-ahu-[…]; C2 = Šumu-ibni//[…]; C3 = Ninurta-ašarēdu//Zabūšu; Scribe = Bēl-[…]//Rāši-ili
Further Information
- Type and Content
- Purchases
- last updated by
- Yuval Levavi, April 22, 2026, 9:38 a.m.
- Imported (Person, Date)
- Melanie Gross (26/05/2016)
- Legacy NaBuCCo ID
- 5556
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- BE 8/1