Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 3107
- Museum No.
- NCBT 00364
- Primary Publication
- YOS 21 207
- Place of issue
- Nāru-eššu
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Neo-Babylonian
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Nbk IV. 01-V-26
Content
- Paraphrase
Land sub-lease for arable land belonging to the temple on a sharecropping basis.
A, the rent farmer (ša muhhi sūti) of Eanna, gives to B, [x] kor of arable land (pî šulpi) for cultivation on a sharecropping basis (errēšūtu). The land is property (makkūru) of the Eanna temple, part of the rent farm (sūtu) of A, and it is situated in the “thousand”-field complex (līmu) of C.
It includes both cultivated (bīt dulli) and uncultivated land (taptû). B will perform (epēšu) the work (dullu) there (ina libbi) and in newly reclaimed land (mayyāru), and guarantees (pūtu našû) for the performance of the (necessary) work.In return, B will give ½ of the harvest from the already cultivated land as the temple’s share (zittu), and ⅓ from the previously uncultivated land.
Each took (a copy of) the document.
Names of 3 witnesses and the scribe.
A= Gimillu/Innin-šumu-ibni, rent farmer (ša muhhi sūti) of Eanna; B= Talīm/Šumu-ukīn; C= Šarru-iqbi.
Further Information
- Type and Content
- Leases
- last updated by
- Matthias Adelhofer, Jan. 11, 2026, 4:09 p.m.
- Imported (Person, Date)
- Yuval Levavi, Kathleen Abraham (11/09/2023)
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- YOS 21