šubanti certificate
The šubanti document is a cuneiform document form from the ancient Babylonian period. This is the most general type of real contract , which could be used for all legal transactions in private law in which liability on the part of a service recipient was established by receiving the service.
The name of this type of document comes from the sumerogram šu.ba.anti , which denotes the legal transaction and literally translates as “he put a hand in his own interest”, meaning “received” or “took”. Their basic form was always:
"The service recipient received the service from the service provider .
In return he will provide.
Witness list "
This general certificate form was primarily for loans, credit purchases , consignment shops , work contracts , labor contracts for harvest workers, leases for marine propulsion and flashings used. Which business is involved can only be seen from the specific document, but not from your form.
Presumably the documents of this type originated in the time of the First Dynasty of Babylon . In the previous Ur-III period, there was another form of document with the "sworn repayment loan".
literature
- Erich Pritsch : On the legal significance of the šubanti formula. In: Hubert Junker , Johannes Botterweck (Ed.): Old Testament Studies. Friedrich Nötscher on his sixtieth birthday, July 19, 1950 (= Bonn Biblical Contributions. Vol. 1, ZDB -ID 525852-2 ). Dedicated by friends and students. Hanstein, Bonn 1950, pp. 172-187.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Georges Boyer : Textes juridiques (= Archives Royales de Mari 8, ZDB -ID 1330205-x ). Geuthner, Paris 1958, p. 211.
- ↑ z. B .: Adam Falkenstein : The New Sumerian court documents. Volume 1: Introduction and systematic presentation (= Bavarian Academy of Sciences. Philosophical-Historical Class. Abhandlungen. NF, Issue 39, ISSN 0005-710X = Publications of the Commission for the Development of Cuneiform Texts. Item 2, Part 1). Publishing house of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Munich 1956, p. 120.