Many a Mickle Makes a Muckle Advance Payments in the Ur-Utu Archive (Old Babylonian Sippar)

This article analyses the content, structure and functioning of advance payments concerning real estate sales, a text genre that only came into being during the late Old Babylonian period. It includes the publication of 19 unpublished late Old Babylonian texts from Sippar, among which 18 texts from the archive of Ur-Utu, chief dirge singer of Annunitum.