Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 8255
- Museum No.
- YBC 09173
- Primary Publication
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P309895
- Place of issue
- Uruk city
- Regional setting
- Uruk region
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Neo-Babylonian
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Nbk. 36-XII-12
- Date BCE
- 07/03/568
Digeanna
- Text Form
- Contract (various verbs)
- Legal Purpose
- Sale (ana ... nadānu; šâmu, sometimes ina muḫḫi)
- Format of the tablet
- landscape
- Private context
- True
Content
- Paraphrase
Zēru-ukīn/Ṣillāya (ZU) has sold his slaves (lamutānu) Nabû-[...] and (f)Ṣullê-tašme for 34 shekels of silver, ḫarīṣu-price, to Arad-Innin/Ibni-Ištar. ZU (? lit.: [...]/Ṣillāya) guarantees against contestant(s) (sēḫû) and claimant(s) (pāqirānu), and against (the slavesʼ) status of freeman (mār banûtu).
4 witnesses (1 witness written on the left edge).
Scribe: Zēria/Marduk-aplu-uṣur//Ḫunzû.
For the rent farmer (ša muḫḫi sūti) Arad-Innin/Ibni-Ištar see Janković 2013: 199-201. The number of the year is written in an atypical form, so the reading is not fully secured.
Further Information
- created by
- Julia Giessler, June 9, 2026, 8:12 a.m.
- last updated by
- Julia Giessler, June 9, 2026, 8:12 a.m.