Basic Metadata

NaBuCCo ID
3592
Museum No.
YBC 03734
Primary Publication
YOS 7 147
CDLI P-Identifier
P305092
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):
Cam. 03-X-21
Date BCE
25/01/526

Digeanna

Van Driel Files
7 m
Text Form
Contract (various verbs)
Legal Purpose
Rent (ana idi ... nadānu)
Transaction Type
not applicable
Formatting remarks
Marking on the l.h.e.
Format of the tablet
landscape
Private context
True

Content

Paraphrase

Nādinu/Nabû-bān-zēri rents his boat, which is at the disposal of (ina pāni) Nabû-aplu-iddin/Šulāya (NAI), to Bānia/Nabû-nāṣir (B) (and) Širikku/Balāṭu (Š), starting on the 21st day of m.X. The monthly rent (idu) is 13 shekels of silver, including 1 shekel that B and Š will pay out to NAI in barley! (text: eš.bar). NAI received 4 shekels of silver as rent. The silver is […] to/for Iqīšāya.

Each has taken a copy of the document.

2 witnesses.

Scribe: Nabû-mukīn-zēri/Ea-zēru-iqīša!.

Legacy Paraphrase

Boat rental. Nādinu/Nabû-bān-zēri rents his boat to Bāniya/Nabû-nāṣir and Širku/Balāṭu for a monthly rent of 13 shekels of silver. The boat itself will be steered  by the boatman Nabû-aplu-iddin/Šūlāya. One shekel of the rent will be paid to the boatman in the form of barley. The boatman has also received a deposit of 4 shekels of silver. Two witnesses and Nabû-mukīn-zēri/Bēl-zēru-iqīša, the scribe.


Further Information

Type and Content
Leases
last updated by
Małgorzata Sandowicz, June 19, 2025, 1:29 p.m.