NY 51

Content

Paraphrase: Land rental.
A₁ rents (ana sūtu nadānu) arable land to B₁ (C’s slave) and B₂ for 6 year, at a yearly rental price amounting to 27 Kor (4860 l) of dates. The land's borders are described in detail: the upper long side borders on (the properies of) D and E, the lower one on (the properties of) F’s sons and of D. The land belongs to A and his brothers, and A₂ holds a share in it as well. For each kor (180 l.) of dates (of the 27 kors (4860 l) that B₁ and B₂ have to pay each year), they shall give to A₁ und A₂ (the customary amounts of) spathes (tuhallu), spadices (gipu), and fibres (mangagu), a load of firewood (ḫuṣabu) and 2 darīku-containers. They will hoe (herû) the ground from the branching off of the canal (ārittu) to […]. Rest of the tablet broken off. Names of 7 witnesses and the scribe.

A₁ = Marduk-nāṣir-apli/Itti-Marduk-balāṭu//Egibi; A₂ = Bēlet-ēreš; B₁ = Sîn-ibni; B₂ = Rēmūt-Bēl/Danna-Nergal//Rab-banê; C = Mardukāya; D = Iddin-Nabû; E = Bēl-erība; F = Nabû-šarru-ibni