Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 7282
- Museum No.
- CBS 03557
- Primary Publication
- BE 08 048
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P259931
- Regional setting
- Nippur city
- Places mentioned on Tablet
- Babylon city
- Period
- Neo-Babylonian
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Nbn. 2-VI-28
- Date BCE
- 05/10/554
Digeanna
- Text Form
- Contract (various verbs)
- Legal Purpose
- Other or sfs (various verbs)
- Format of the tablet
- landscape
Content
- Paraphrase
Itti-Enlil-balāṭu (IEB) and Bābu-iqīša (BI) shall go to Babylon and litigate (aḫāmeš dabābu) their ongoing legal claims (dibbu ša bašû). Should IEB not come, their judgement will be set (in his absence). Should BI not come, IEB is cleared.
The contract was written in the presence (ina ušuzzi) of Gula-šumu-līšir, the Governor of Nippur (šandabakku), Nabû-zēru-ibni Zazakku-official>, Šamaš-mukīn-aḫi harbormaster (ša rēš šarri rab kāri)>, Mušēzibu < = Mušēzib-Nabû courtier and chief craftsmen (ša rēš šarri rab ummâni)>, Marduk-šarru-uṣur/Mušēzibu , Bānia/(Ina)-bīt-Ea-kittu, …/Enlil-aḫu-iddin, and Anu-šarru-uṣur qīpu) of Nippur>
The resolution of the legal case is presented in BE 8, 42. All restorations of filiations and professions are based on BE 8, 42. The son of Enlil-aḫu-iddin is the only person not attested in BE 8, 42.
Although not stated, the fact that both parties share the same father’s name, Usātu, and the fact that the dispute concerns a house (both facts are confirmed by BE 8, 42), suggest that they were brothers.
Like BE 8, 42, the present tablet lacks witnesses, the scribe’s name, and place of drafting, and is thus considered a draft. Note that the present tablet, dated two days prior to BE 8, 42, present less identifiers for practically all attested individuals.
Further Information
- created by
- Yuval Levavi, March 6, 2026, 12:17 p.m.
- last updated by
- Yuval Levavi, May 18, 2026, 8:17 a.m.
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- Holtz 2009