Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 3116
- Museum No.
- NCBT 00864
- Primary Publication
- YOS 21 208
- Place of issue
- Broken
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Neo-Babylonian
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Nbk. 01-V-30
Content
- Paraphrase
Land sub-lease of land belong the temple on a sharecropping basis.
A, the rent farmer (ša muhhi sūti) of the Eanna temple gives to B a plot of newly reclaimed land (mayyāru), property (makkūru) of the Lady-of-Uruk and Nanāya that is part of A’s rent farm (sūtu), for cultivation on a sharecropping basis (errēšūtu).
The land is located in (beginning broken): [...] to the east of […], next to the land of the Yašuteans (wr. lúiá-šu-tu-ú-a) until the drainage ditch (makallû) of the I/Ubuleans (wr. lúi-bu-la-a-a) in the city Ubul. He will perform (epēšu) the work (dullu) there and work up (dekû) the land with the mayyāru-plough.
For as much land as B cultivates there, he will give ⅓ of the harvest for the land irrigated by buckets (bīt dālu), and ½ for the land with readily available water (bīt mê qātē); this is the share (zittu) of the Eanna temple.
Each took (a copy of) the document.
Names of 3 witnesses and the scribe.
A= Gimillu/Innin-šumu-ibni, the rent farmer (ša muhhi sūti) of the Lady-of-Uruk; B= Iddin-Nergal/Nergal-dān.
Further Information
- Type and Content
- Leases
- Imported (Person, Date)
- Yuval Levavi, Kathleen Abraham (11/09/2023)
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- YOS 21