Basic Metadata

NaBuCCo ID
3108
Museum No.
BM 114559
Primary Publication
Place of issue
Broken
Archive
Eanna temple
Period
Early Achaemenid
Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
Cam. [x]-VII-20

Content

Paraphrase

Land lease for uncultivated land belonging to the temple on a sharecropping basis. Dialogue document.

A approaches (ana pāni alāku) B and asks (qabû) him to give him (nadānu, wr. bīnamma) the uncultivated land (qaqqaru bīt taptû) on the bank of Innin canal, land (qaqqaru) of the Lady-of-Uruk, to work there (ina libbi epēšu). B agrees (šemû, lit. listens).

In return, A will give ¼-share (zittu) as šibšu-rent of the land to (ana) the Eanna temple.

Names of 2 witnesses and the scribe.

A= Nanāya-iddin/Innin-šumu-uṣur//Ekur-zākir; B= Nādin/Bēl-ahhē-erība//Egibi


Further Information

Type and Content
Leases
Imported (Person, Date)
Yuval Levavi, Kathleen Abraham (11/09/2023)
Mentioned in the following publication(s)
Janković 2013 (unpubl. PhD diss.)