Tablet BM 114559

NaBuCCo ID 3108
Museum No. BM 114559
CDLI P-Identifier
Place of issue
Type and content Lease
Archive
Period Each
Year BCE None
Editio princeps Jankovic 2013 (unpubl. PhD diss.)
Paraphrase

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

A approaches (ana pāni alākuB 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

Transliteration
Babylonian Date (year-month-day): Cam. [x]-VII-20