Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 7704
- Museum No.
- NMC 15356
- Primary Publication
- Kaskal 18 (2021), 127-157 13
- Place of issue
- Broken
- Regional setting
- Uruk region
- Places mentioned on Tablet
- Dun-Aruru(?)
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- None
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- XXX. 00-00-00
- Inferred date
- -
Digeanna
- Text Form
- Contract (various verbs)
- Legal Purpose
- Sale (ana ... nadānu; šâmu, sometimes ina muḫḫi)
- Transaction Type
- not applicable
- Formatting
- True
- Formatting remarks
- Horizontal rulings
- Format of the tablet
- portrait
- Private context
- True
Content
- Paraphrase
The brothers Kunāya/Bēlšunu//Bābūtu, Kāṣiru/Bēlšunu//Bābūtu and Bēl-erība/Bēlšunu//Bābūtu purchase a house (bītu) for demolishing and rebuilding (napāṣu u epēšu) and two inheritance shares (zittu) from Nādin-aḫi/[…]. These properties previously belonged to Bēlšunu//Bābūtu, their father
The house plot is located in (tp)Dun-Aruru(? lit.: dun(?)-(d)a-ru-ru) in the quarter (erṣetu) of the (tp)Gate of Nabû (abullu ša Nabû). It is adjacent to a wide street, a thorougfare of the god and the king, a street of the Gate of Nabû and the house plots of Kirāya(?), Bēl-ibni and Balīḫāya, the […]. The shared plot(s) are in the open country (ṣēru) by the (tp)Ḫiltu Canal. This is the agreed area under sale, irrespective of whether the properties are found to be larger or smaller (īṣu ū mādu) (upon measuring).
[…] mina(s) 10 shekels of silver in pieces (šibirtu) as the purchase price and […] shekel(s) as the supplementary payment (atru) are declared (maḫīru nabû).
The rest of the tablet is broken. The usual fingernail marks are absent or not preserved.
Further Information
- created by
- Piotr Turowski, April 19, 2026, 3:23 p.m.
- last updated by
- Piotr Turowski, Aug. 29, 2026, 5:16 p.m.
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- Kaskal 18 (2021), 127-157