VAT 08499

A cadaster of land (of Eanna?) listing properties of various sizes.

1. “Thousand cubit” field complex (līmu) of the (tp)Ḫarrātu irrigation district facing Dūr-Ugūmu, neighboring on: the (tp)Ḫarrātu Canal and (the land of) the scouts (māḫiṣu); the land of the City Priest (šangû) and the nakkandu-land; (tp)Takkiru Canal; (tp)Bāb-Ḫilti and the land of the scouts. Including the land turned over by the scouts.

2. A plot neighboring on: (tp)Bāb-Ḫilti; a plot that was part of the same property (libbi eqli); the land of the scouts and …. Date orchards are measured out within it.

3. The date orchard of Ubār-Nanāya/Nabû-šumu-iddin neighboring on: the (tp)Bāb-Ḫilti; land of Nabû-tukulti-ēdu; arable land, which belonged earlier to the same property; the bank of the (tp)Ditch of the Scouts (ḫarru ša māḫiṣē). Planted with 150 mature and 50 young (5-year-old) palms.

4. The field of Nabû-tukulti-ēdu/Qurdāya neighboring on: the land of Ubār-Nanāya; the land of Bēltu-ēreš; the bank of the Canal of the Scouts (nāru ša māḫiṣē). Planted with 200 mature and 10 young (3-year-old) palms.

5. The date orchard of Bēltu-ēreš/Abu-gāya neighboring on: the property of Nabû-tukulti-ēdu; Ṭāb-Uruk/Aqria; arable land, which belonged earlier to the same property; the Canal of the Scouts (nāru ša māḫiṣē). Planted with 180 mature palms and 30 young (4-year-old) palms.

6. The date orchard of Ṭāb-Uruk/Aqrāya neighboring on: the land of Bēltu-ēreš; the land of Nabû-nāṣir/Nabû-nādin-aḫi; arable land, which belonged earlier to the same property; the Canal of the Scouts. Planted with 100 mature palms and 2 young (5-year-old) palms.

7. The date garden of Nabû-nāṣir/Nabû-nādin-aḫi neighboring on: the land of Ṭāb-Uruk; the (tp)Canal(?)of the Scouts (ḫarūtu); […].Planted with 50 mature palms and [x] young palms (5-year-old).

8. Land under cultivation (bīt dulli)(?).

9. Narrow, long estate (šīḫu), neighboring on: the land of Abnā’; nakkandu-land; the land of Nusku-imme; the (tp)Ditch of Iddināya (ḫarru ša Iddināya), (tp)Šingu and tells.

10. A plot neighboring on waterlogged area (mê mali rēḫi) and kālû-land.

11. “Thousand cubit” field complex of ḫulḫullu neighboring on nakkandu-land; land of the City Priest; the bank of (tp)Euphrates; land of the scouts. Including land irrigated with buckets (bīt dāli)(?).

12. Land of the Nabû temple (bīt Nabû) (or: (tp)Bīt-Nabû) neighboring on nakkandu-land.

13. Estate (or: “thousand cubit” field complex) of (tp)Bāb-Maḫīri in (tp)Bīt-Amukāni neighboring on nakkandu-land. Planted with 500 mature and 130 young (5-year-old) palms. Including kālû land.

14. Land (qaqqaru) of the estate of (tp)Šaqillatu irrigation district, including arable land. Neighboring on nakkandu-land and the plot, which belonged earlier to the same property. Planted with 450 mature and 50 young palms.

15. kaslu-land neighboring on nakkandu-land and the plot, which belonged earlier to the same property in the (tp)Šaqillatu irrigation district.

See Janković 2013: 343–45 for a detailed analysis of this text and collations.