Basic Metadata

NaBuCCo ID
3114
Museum No.
YBC 03543
CDLI P-Identifier
Place of issue
Uruk city
Type and Content
Leases
Archive
Eanna temple
Dossier
None
Period
NB
Year BCE
None
Editio princeps
Jankovic 2013 (unpubl. PhD diss.)

Content

Paraphrase

Land lease for cultivation of temple land on a sharecropping basis.

A, the temple administrator (šatammu) of Eanna, gives the fields (eqlu) of the Eanna temple, from the kinṣu (uncl., perhaps knee of the canal) to the lower “thousand”-field complex (līmu) on the Ḫarru-ša-Lâbāši canal, to B1 and B2, for cultivation (errēšūtu, i.e. ploughing and sowing).

In return, B1 and B2 will deliver to the temple its shares (zittu) in the harvest: 1/5 for the land which was cultivated in 23 Nbk, 1/6 for the land which they will irrigate by buckets (dalû), and ⅓ for the land with readily available water (bīt mê qātē). B1 and B2 guarantee (pūtu našû) for the performance of the (necessary) work (dullu)

Names of 6 witnesses and the scribe.

A= Marduk-šāpik-zēri/Marduk-šumu-iddin//Rab-banê, temple administrator (šatammu) of Eanna; B1= Aplāya/Nabû-udammiq//Rēˀû; B2= Nabû-ušallim/Šulāya//Ašlāku.

Transliteration
Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
Nbk. 23-III-1

further information

Imported (Person, Date)
Yuval Levavi, Kathleen Abraham (11/09/2023)
Legacy NaBuCCo ID
None