Basic Metadata

NaBuCCo ID
7242
Museum No.
CMAG 1922.90.08
Primary Publication
AfO 24 (1973), 122-127 13
CDLI P-Identifier
P458914
Place of issue
Uruk city
Regional setting
Uruk region
Archive
Eanna temple
Period
Neo-Babylonian
Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
Nbk. 08-VIII-10
Date BCE
10/11/597

Digeanna

Text Form
Contract (various verbs)
Legal Purpose
Loan (ina muḫḫi)
Transaction Type
not applicable
Formatting remarks
sfs: private
Format of the tablet
landscape
Private context
True

Content

Paraphrase

Antichretic loan. Nabû-aplu-iddin/Nabû-uṣalli//Agru (NAI) (based on AnOr 8 4) owes 1 mina 10 shekels of silver to [...]/Ninurta-šarru-uṣur.

The house of NAI is pledged as security (maškanu) for 5 years. There is no rent (idu) of the house and no interest on the silver.

The tenant is obligated to carry out repairs (batqu ṣabātu), bring out (waṣû Š) […], plaster the house with clay (ṭīdu šakānu). Additional clauses set out the tenant’s duties in the 4th, 6th, and 9th years of the lease term.

In m.V of the 9th year […].

Penatly for breaking the contract is set at 3 minas of silver.

2 witnesses.

Scribe: Nabû-bān-aḫi/Aplāya//Atû (based on Nbk no. 129).

At the end, there is the notation "the silver did not leave the money-bag" (kaspi ša kisu lā lâ)


Further Information

created by
Piotr Turowski, Feb. 28, 2026, 11:48 a.m.
last updated by
Piotr Turowski, Feb. 28, 2026, 1:18 p.m.
Mentioned in the following publication(s)
AfO 24 (1973), 122-127