Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 828
- Museum No.
- BM 118967
- Primary Publication
- Frame 2013 12
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P521864
- Place of issue
- Uruk city
- Regional setting
- Uruk region
- Places mentioned on Tablet
- Uruk city
- Archive
- Sîn-nāṣir
- Period
- Early Neo-Babylonian
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Ššu. 09-X-05
- Date BCE
- 659
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; fingernail impressions
- Format of the tablet
- portrait
- Private context
- True
Navico
- Oblate/Slave Descriptor
- Age
Content
- Paraphrase
Mušēzib-Marduk/Kiribtu(//Sîn-nāṣir) purchases a house in good repair (bītu epšu), roofed (bīt ruggubi), with a doorframe in place, a door and a lock installed (sippu daltu u sikkūru kunnū) from Mukīn-zēri/Aḫḫēšāya (MZ).
The house plot is located in Uruk in the quarter (erṣetu) of Eanna (bīt Eanna), and measures 57 × 32 cubits. It is adjacent to the wide street, the thoroughfare of the god and the king, the blind alley (birīti lā āṣīti) and the house plots of Nanāya-uṣalli/Zākiru and Nabû-bēl-ilī/Bēl-udūa (or: Nabû-bēl-ilāni/Bēl-udūa, see TBER 33c/34b).
10 minas of silver in pieces (šibirtu) are declared (maḫīru nabû) as the purchase price. The payment is received. MZ relinquishes any future claims on behalf of his household.
Written in the presence of Nabû-ušebši, the Governor (šākin ṭēmi) of Uruk, Nabû-iqīša, the High Priest (šatammu) of Eanna, and 11 witnesses.
Scribe: Mukīn-zēri/Šākin-šumi.
The document includes the clause concerning fingernail impressions of MZ, and the tablet is marked with them.
- Legacy Paraphrase
Purchase of a house in Uruk: A purchases a built house (bītu epšu) for 10 minas of silver in pieces (šibirtu) from B. The sold house is located in the Eanna district (erṣet Eanna) inside of Uruk. Its upper side (in the west) borders on the house of C1 and its lower side (in the east) on the thoroughfare (mūtaqu) of the god and the king. Its upper front (in the north) borders on the house of C2 and its lower front (in the south) on a blind alley (biriti lā aṣîti). It measures 57 x 32 cubits (28.5 x 16 m). The transaction is concluded in the presence of (ina uzuzzi) the governor (šākin ṭēmi) of Uruk (Nabû-ušabši) and the bishop (šatammu) of Eanna (Nabû-iqīša). 11 witnesses and the scribe. Fingernail impression (ṣupru) of the seller. This document is a near duplicate of AO10347.
A = Mušēzib-Marduk/Kiribtu; B = Mukīn-zēri/Ahhēšāya; C1 = Nanāya-uṣalli/Zākiru; C2 = Nabû-bēl-ilī/Bēl-udūa; Scribe = Mukīn-zēri/Šākin-šumi
Further Information
- last updated by
- Piotr Turowski, Feb. 7, 2026, 7:18 p.m.
- Imported (Person, Date)
- Melanie Gross (26/05/2016)
- Legacy NaBuCCo ID
- 5389
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- Frame 2013