Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 892
- Museum No.
- NBC 08393
- Primary Publication
- JCS 36/1 (1984), 1-63 17
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P299753
- 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):
- Kan. 15-XII-17
- Date BCE
- 633
Digeanna
- Text Form
- Contract (various verbs)
- Legal Purpose
- Loan (ina muḫḫi)
- Transaction Type
- not applicable
- Formatting
- True
- Formatting remarks
- Horizontal ruling
- Format of the tablet
- landscape
- Private context
- True
Content
- Paraphrase
[...] mina(s) of silver without an interest (qaqqadu) belonging to Bēl-aḫu-iddin/Ubāru (BAI) and Ša-Nabû-šū/Nabû-ēṭir (ŠNŠ) is (or: are) owed by Mušēzib-Marduk/Kiribtu(//Sîn-nāṣir) (MM).
From the beginning of the new year, the interest is set at 11+[...] shekels per mina yearly. The grove of MM is pledged as security (maškanu) to BAI and ŠNŠ.
The field is located at the (tp)Royal Canal (nār šarri). It is adjacent to the properties of […]/Lū-maššûˀa, […]/Nādinu, and […]/[…]-erība.
The witnesses list is badly preserved; it probably included 5 names.
Scribe: Marduk-šumu-uṣur/Nāṣiru.
- Legacy Paraphrase
Loan of silver: B owes to A1 and A2 [x] minas of silver without interest (qaqqadu). Beginning with Nisān (I) of the following year (Kan 16), the debt bears interest of 11(+?) shekels of silver per year. An orchard (kirû) of B is pledged to A1 and A2. It adjoins the royal canal (nār šarri) and its four sides border on (the properties of) C1, C2, C3 and C4. The remainder of the tablet is not preserved.
A1 = Bēl-ahu-iddin/Ubāru; A2 = Ša-Nabû-šū/Nabû-ēṭir; B = Mušēzib-Marduk/Kiribtu; C1= […]/Lū-maššûˀa; C2 = […]/[…]; C3 = […]/Nādin; C4 = […]/[…]-erība
Further Information
- last updated by
- Piotr Turowski, Feb. 18, 2026, 11:50 a.m.
- Imported (Person, Date)
- Melanie Gross (26/05/2016)
- Legacy NaBuCCo ID
- 5403
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- Frame 2013
- JCS 36/1 (1984), 1-63