Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 3904
- Museum No.
- YBC 03524
- CDLI P-Identifier
- Place of issue
- Bitqu-ša-Bēl-ēṭir
- Type and Content
- Leases
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Dossier
- None
- Period
- NB
- Year BCE
- None
- Editio princeps
- YOS 21
Content
- Paraphrase
Land sub-lease for tending the date palms in an orchard belonging to the temple
A gives land … from his rent farm (sūtu) to B for the purpose of orchard-tending (nukaribbūtu). The land is property (makkūru) of the Lady-of-Uruk and [Nanāya].
Its location is described in detail but only fragmentary preserved: ... Dūr-Ugūm ... [...], from the border of [...] the bīt ritti-land of C1, to the bīt ritti-land of C2.
B will plant (zaqāpu, wr. i-zaq-pi for izaqqap) … (broken), and will make (šakānu) there (ina libbi) (i.e., in between and below the date palms of the existing orchard) a garden with vegetables (šikittu) and fruit trees (gapnu, wr. ga-pa-nu). He will also have to surround (lamû) the gardens/orchard with a wall? (x x x x kát til lu, uncl.), dig (herû) the irrigation canals (nāru) and supply them with water (mê ṣabātu Š).
For the (digging) work (herûtu) below (šupal) the date palms, A will give B x (perhaps 5) kor of dates per (surface) kor worked with iron spades (bīt marri), x (perhaps 4) kor of dates per (surface) kor worked with a plough (bīt erešti), as the gardener remuneration (sissinnu).
[B] guarantees (pūtu našû) for the guarding (maṣṣartu) of fronds and shoots (of the date palms) and against the felling (dâku) of the date palms. Whoever transgresses the agreement will pay 1 [mina] of silver.
The document does not specify what B has to pay as rent (fixed rent or a share from the crops?).
Names of 4 witnesses and the scribe.
A= Gimillu/Innin-šumu-ibni, a known rent farmer of the Eanna; B= Sîn-ahu-bulliṭ/Ahu-lakūn; C1= Nabû-ēreš; C2= Bēl-iddin/Bābilāya
- Transliteration
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Nbk IV. 01-[x]-[x]
further information
- Imported (Person, Date)
- Yuval Levavi, Kathleen Abraham (11/09/2023)
- Legacy NaBuCCo ID
- None