Basic Metadata

NaBuCCo ID
5018
Museum No.
SLAM 139:1922
Primary Publication
CDLI P-Identifier
P416547
Place of issue
Uruk city
Regional setting
Uruk region
Archive
Eanna temple
Period
Neo-Babylonian
Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
Nbk. 34?-IV-01
Inferred date
17/07/571

Digeanna

Van Driel Files
8 c
Text Form
Contract (various verbs)
Legal Purpose
Lease (ana ...ūti nadānu, ṣabātu; ina pāni)
Transaction Type
not applicable
Domain (Eanna)
Agriculture
Format of the tablet
landscape

Content

Paraphrase

Land lease (ana zāqipūti?). The tenant will remove shrubbery (abattu nasāku), lay out garden beds (šikittu šakānu), and dig (ḫerû) irrigation canals. Other terms of the contract are lost.

Written in the presence of Sîn-iddin(?), Royal Resident (qīpu) of Eanna, and 10 witnesses.

Scribe: Innin-zēru-ušebši/Balāssu.


Further Information

created by
Małgorzata Sandowicz, July 4, 2025, 4:37 p.m.
last updated by
Małgorzata Sandowicz, July 4, 2025, 4:37 p.m.