Tablet BM 114444

NaBuCCo ID 3112
Museum No. BM 114444
CDLI P-Identifier
Place of issue
Type and content Lease
Archive
Period NB
Year BCE None
Editio princeps Jankovic 2013 (unpubl. PhD diss.)
Paraphrase

Long term land lease for tending the date palms in an orchard belonging to the temple on a sharecropping basis.

Two brothers, A1 and A2, give their hallatu-orchard (zēru kirû hallatu) of the Lady-of-Uruk and Nanāya, to B for the purpose of orchard-tending (nukaribbūtu) for 4 years.

The plot is situated on the intake (bābu) of Ḫarru-ša-Gubbāya. B will (re-)build (epēšu) the orchard wall (igāru) and cut (nakāsu) the thorny bushes (giṣṣu). His share (zittu) will be ¼ of the yield (ebūru) of the plot.

Whoever transgresses the agreement will pay 5 shekels of silver.

Names of 7 witnesses and the scribe.

A1= Innin-šumu-iškun/Gimillu//Rab-banê, brother of Nanāya-Šamšia (= A2); A2= Nanāya-Šamšia/Gimillu//Rab-banê, brother of Innin-šumu-iškun (= A1); B= Anu-nūr-ilī/Nergal-ēṭer//Rab-banê.

Transliteration
Babylonian Date (year-month-day): Nbn. 13-V-25