Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 7642
- Museum No.
- YBC 03722
- Primary Publication
- Kleber 2008 14
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P305080
- Place of issue
- Ṣūru
- Regional setting
- Uruk region
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Neo-Babylonian
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Nbk. 40-VII-13
- Date BCE
- 20/09/565
Digeanna
- Van Driel Files
- 12 a
- Text Form
- Contract (various verbs)
- Legal Purpose
- Sale (ana ... nadānu; šâmu, sometimes ina muḫḫi)
- Transaction Type
- transactional (incoming)
- Domain (Eanna)
- Higher-order management and policies
- Formatting
- True
- Formatting remarks
- After the main text has concluded, the rest of the obverse as well as the lower edge is left blank. The space on the reverse is used in full for the witness list, name of the scribe and date. On the top of both obverse and reverse, 6 space-markings in ink can be seen.
- Format of the tablet
- landscape
Navico
- Oblate/Slave Role
- Is sold (slave) (passive)
- Oblate/Slave Descriptor
- oblate
Content
- Paraphrase
Bānia/Tabnēa//Bā’iru (B) has voluntarily sold (nadānu) Nūrēa (N) his slave (qallu) for ½ mina of silver, a fixed purchase price (šīm hariṣ), to the temple property.
B bears responsibility (pūtu našû) for contestants (sēḫû) and claimants (pāqirānu), as well as the status of royal slave (arad šarrūti) and the status of freeman (mār banûtu) concerning N.
The document was written in the presence of (ina ušuzzi) Sîn-iddin, Royal Resident (qīpu) of Eanna. 3 witnesses are listed. The scribe is Nabû-bān-aḫi/Ibnāya//Ekur-zākir, in (tp)Ṣūru.
Note: The temple usually didn’t buy slaves. It is possible that this unusual transaction is linked to the persona of the seller (Bānia/Tabnēa//Bā’iru), who is later attested as High Priest (šatammu) of Eanna (see commentary in Kleber 2008, p. 150).
Further Information
- created by
- Dylan Schimek, April 13, 2026, 10:25 a.m.
- last updated by
- Dylan Schimek, Sept. 30, 2026, 9:17 a.m.