Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 788
- Museum No.
- MLC 1739
- Primary Publication
- BRM 1 38
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P296413
- Place of issue
- Borsippa city
- Period
- Early Neo-Babylonian
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- XXX. yy-IV-dd
- Date BCE
- 648
Content
- Paraphrase
- Purchase of land: A purchases from the brothers B1 and B2 arable land (zēru) for 11 ½ shekels of silver in pieces (šibirtu). The land is located along the marsh (raqqatu) of Aṣūnu in the meadowland (ugāru) of Dilbat and forms part of the hanšû-land of C. Its upper side borders on (the property of) the buyer and the lower side on (the property of) D. The upper front borders on the irrigation district (tamirtu) of Nagū and the lower front on the drain channel (ārittu) of the property of the diviner (bīt bārî). The purchased land covers an area of 0;2.5 kor (7,650 m2). 5 witnesses and the scribe, also defined as writer of the tablet (šāṭir ṭuppi). Instead of a seal impression (kunukku), fingernail impressions (ṣupru) of the two sellers.
A = Lâbâši/Nādinu; B1 = Nabû-kāṣir/Bēl-upahhir; B2 = Uraš-nāṣir/Bēl-upahhir; C = Iqbi-Uraš/Kidinnu//Rē’i-alpi (oxherd); D = Uraš-ušallim/Nabû-erība; Scribe = Nabû-nādin-ahu//Šangû-Dilbat
Further Information
- Type and Content
- Purchases
- Imported (Person, Date)
- Melanie Gross (26/05/2016)
- Legacy NaBuCCo ID
- 5502
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- BRM 1