Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 7382
- Museum No.
- AO 06854
- Primary Publication
- TCL 12 008
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P387073
- Place of issue
- Broken
- Regional setting
- Uruk region
- Places mentioned on Tablet
- Nār-šarri
- Rudāya
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Early Neo-Babylonian
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Ššu. 1-II-5
- Date BCE
- 667
Digeanna
- Van Driel Files
- 8 a
- Text Form
- Contract (various verbs)
- Legal Purpose
- Sale (ana ... nadānu; šâmu, sometimes ina muḫḫi)
- Transaction Type
- not applicable
- Domain (Eanna)
- Agriculture
- Format of the tablet
- portrait
- Private context
- True
Content
- Paraphrase
Nabê-tamgabbi/Iadî buys a field from Nabû-šumu-ēreš/Nabû-šumu-iškun for 3 minas plus 10 shekels of silver. Standard legal clauses follow.
The field borders the lot of Nabû-bēl-ilāni/Bēl-idûa, that of Balāssu/Nabû-ušēzib, the (tp)Royal canal (Nār šarri) in Uruk, and the “fifty-cubit” fields (ḫanšû) of the Urukeans towards (tp)Rudāya.
3 witnesses, and the scribe Balāssu/Marduk.
Notes: The tablet is dated to the time when Nabû-ušabši was City Governer (šākin ṭēmi).
features finger-nail marks
- Legacy Paraphrase
Purchase of land: A purchases from B a field planted with trees and grain (zaqpu u pî šulpi) for 3 minas of silver, together with an additional payment (atru) of 10 shekels of silver. The land forms part of the hanšû-land in the neighbourhood of Uruk (Urukāya). Its upper side borders on (the property of) C1 and its lower side on (the property of) C2. Its upper front borders on Rudāya and its lower front on the Royal Canal which is in the centre of Uruk. 3 witnesses and the scribe. Fingernail impression (ṣupru) of the seller.
A = Nabû-šumu-ēreš/Nabû-šumu-iškun; B = Nabê-tagabbi/Yada’; C1 = […]/Bēl-itu’a; C2 = Balāssu/Nabû-ušēzib; Scribe = Balāssu/Marduk
Further Information
- created by
- Matthias Adelhofer, March 12, 2026, 12:54 p.m.
- last updated by
- Matthias Adelhofer, March 20, 2026, 7:33 a.m.