| NaBuCCo ID | 1294 |
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| Museum No. | BM 32876 |
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| Place of issue | |
| Type and content | Lease |
| Archive | |
| Period | Each |
| Year BCE | 516 | Editio princeps | Dar. 193 |
| Paraphrase | Land rental. A rents 0;1.4 Kor (4500 m2) of land planted with trees (zēru zaqpu) adjacent to C1’s ‚and C2’s ditch for 5 years to B, who should perform gardening work (nukaribbūtu). He will plant trees (zaqāpu) on 0;0.1 Kor (450 m2): he will plant 30 fig trees, 20 trees of sweet pomegranates; 3 trees of sweet apples – all trees of good quality (babbanû) – and he will enclose them with a wall. In Abu (V), he should carry out the excavation work for irrigation, he is responsible for bringing water from the ditch in the center of the field drawing it from the previous canal. He will not cut off sprouts (raṭbu) nor […], he will not tear out spadices (kaparru). The landlord will give him 5 kor (900 l) of dates per kor of land, as gardener's remuneration (šissinnu). The renter is responsible for the tree planting (limītu): should he fail to do so, he shall pay 1 mina of silver. He will not chop down (marû D) the date palms which are spontaneously grown from seeds (gisimmaru za-ri-ti). B will enjoy one third of the trees' yield for 10 years, together with A. The parties to the contract have taken one copy of the document each. Names of 3 witnesses and the scribe. A = Šāpik-zēri/Ṣillāya//Nabāya; B = Bēl-uballiṭ/Nabû-bēl-ilī//Rab-banê; C1 = Ina-qibi-Bēl/Balāṭu//Rē'i-sīsê; C2 = Bēl-nādin-apli/Talīmu |
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| Transliteration | Transliteration available on Achemenet |
| Babylonian Date (year-month-day): | Dar. yy-XIIb-dd |