Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 3106
- Museum No.
- NBC 04853
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P297875
- Place of issue
- Kār-Eanna
- Type and Content
- Leases
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Dossier
- None
- Period
- NB
- Year BCE
- None
- Editio princeps
- YOS 17
Content
- Paraphrase
Long term land lease for a date palm plantation belonging to the temple on a sharecropping basis. Dialogue document.
A approaches (ana pāni alāku) B, the temple administrator (šatammu) of Eanna and asks (qabû) him to give him (nadānu, wr. bīnamma) a plot of land (qaqqaru) of the Lady-of-Uruk for the purpose of planting (zāqipūtu) (date palms). The said land is on the bank of Nār-šarri, from the baru?-canal to the intake (bābu) of the Aššurītu canal facing? (ana muhhi) Kār-Eanna. B agrees (šemû, lit. listens).
For the first five years, whatever grows there (ina libbi) will be at A’s disposal (pānu dagālu N). Then, he will [give] ½ of the harvest as share (zittu) from the harvest [to the Lady-of-Uruk?]. A will remove (nasāku) the shrubberies*, prepare (šakānu) the plantation (šikittu), and build (epēšu) an orchard wall (igār kirî).
The rest is fragmentary. The readable parts mention: ... canal(s) … … and in front ... [...] irrigation district he built.
Names of 9 witnesses and the scribe.
* For abattu being organic material rather than limestone, see Jursa 1995, 123.
A= Nabû-zēru-iqīša/Ahhēa//Kurī; B= Marduk-šāpik-zēri/Marduk-šumu-iddin//Rab-banê, temple administrator (šatammu) of Eanna
- Transliteration
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Nbk. 21-III-23
further information
- Imported (Person, Date)
- Yuval Levavi, Kathleen Abraham (11/09/2023)
- Legacy NaBuCCo ID
- None