Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 952
- Museum No.
- IM 065078
- Primary Publication
- BaM 5 (1970), 193-304 12
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P489814
- Place of issue
- Uruk city
- Regional setting
- Uruk region
- Archive
- Šamšēa
- Period
- Neo-Babylonian
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Sši. 6-VI-12
- Inferred date
- ca. 622-621 BCE (= 4 Npl, see BaM 28 (1997), 379)
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
Nabû-ušallim/Bēl-iddin(//Šamšēa) purchases a baker’s prebend (nuḫatimmūtu) from Marduk-nāṣir/Bēl-aḫu-iddin (MN).
The prebendary service is performed before Nanāya from the 1st to the 5th day of m.X.
1 mina 30 shekels of silver in pieces (šibirtu) are declared (nabû) as its purchase price (maḫīru, šīmu). It is paid together with (adi) a supplementary payment (atru) of 2 shekels of silver. MN relinquishes any future claims on behalf of his household. Non-compliance will result in a 12-fold repayment.
Written in the presence of Nabû-udammiq(/Zēr-Bābili), the Governor (šākin ṭēmi) of Uruk, and 5 witnesses.
Scribe: Nabû-šumu-ukīn/Aḫḫea.
The document includes a clause concerning fingernail impressions of MN, but their presence or absence is not indicated in the edition.
The date is designated as "during the closing of the gate of Uruk" (ina edēl bābi ša Uruk).
- Legacy Paraphrase
Purchase of a prebend: A purchases a share (isqu) of the prebend of the baker (nuhatimmūtu) before Nanāya for 5 days, from the 1st to the 5th of Ṭebēt (X), for 1 ½ minas of silver in pieces (šibirtu), together with an additional payment (atru) of 2 shekels of silver, from B. The transaction is concluded in the presence of (ina ušuzzi) the governor (šākin ṭēmi) of Uruk (Nabû-udammiq). 5 witnesses and the scribe. Instead of a seal impression (kunukku), fingernail impression (ṣupru) of the seller.
A = Nabû-ušallim/Bēl-iddin; B = Marduk-nāṣir/Bēl-ahu-iddin; Scribe = Nabû-šumu-ukīn/Ahhēa
- Transliteration
- https://www.ebl.lmu.de/library/IM.65078
Further Information
- Type and Content
- Purchases
- last updated by
- Piotr Turowski, June 20, 2026, 4 p.m.
- Imported (Person, Date)
- Melanie Gross (26/05/2016)
- Legacy NaBuCCo ID
- 5436
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- BaM 28 (1997), 367-394
- BaM 5 (1970), 193-304
- Folia Orientalia 20 (1979, ersch. 1980) 175-184