Basic Metadata

NaBuCCo ID
3490
Museum No.
YBC 03805
Primary Publication
YOS 7 045
CDLI P-Identifier
P305163
Place of issue
Uruk city
Regional setting
Uruk region
Places mentioned on Tablet
Uruk city
Archive
Eanna temple
Period
Early Achaemenid
Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
Cyr. 04-XI-26
Date BCE
27/02/534

Digeanna

Van Driel Files
8 a
Text Form
Contract (various verbs)
Legal Purpose
Rent (ana idi ... nadānu)
Transaction Type
not applicable
Private context
True

Content

Paraphrase

Innin-šumu-uṣur/Eanna-ibni (IŠU) rents a third of the house of Gimillu/Šākin-šumi, oblate of the Lady of Uruk, beginning from Cyr. 05.I. The rent (idu) will be paid in barley, in two installments, one at the beginning and another in the middle of the year. IŠU will renew the roof and repair the wall footing.

3 witnesses.

Scribe: Širikti-Kusu/Balāṭu.

Legacy Paraphrase

Lease of (part of) a house. Gimillu/Šākin-šumi, oblate (širku) of Eanna, leases 1/3 of his house for 2? kurru barley per year to Innin-šumu-uṣur/Eanna-ibni. Half is to be paid at the beginning and half in the middle of the year. Usual maintenance clauses. Three witnesses and Širikti-Kusu/Balāṭu, the scribe.


Further Information

Type and Content
Leases
last updated by
Małgorzata Sandowicz, July 3, 2025, 11:12 a.m.