Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 5873
- Museum No.
- YBC 07413
- Primary Publication
- YOS 6 041
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P308356
- Place of issue
- Uruk city
- Regional setting
- Uruk region
- Places mentioned on Tablet
- Aššurītu
- Hiduja
- Sumandar
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Neo-Babylonian
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Nbn. 03-II-11
- Date BCE
- 17/05/553
Digeanna
- Van Driel Files
- 8 c
- Text Form
- Protocol (...)
- Legal Purpose
- Lease (ana ...ūti nadānu, ṣabātu; ina pāni)
- Transaction Type
- not applicable
- Domain (Eanna)
- Higher-order management and policies
- Format of the tablet
- landscape
Content
- Paraphrase
Nergal-nāṣir/Nanāya-ibni (NN) concludes a lease contract which is phrased as a dialogue.
NN obtained from Nabû-šarru-uṣur, the Royal Overseer (ša rēš šarri bēl piqitti) of Eanna and from the officials of the Eanna (bēl piqnēti), the right to lease an arable land (zēru), classified as low-quality land (kaslu and kālû) of the Lady of Uruk, within (tp)Sumandar. It is the remaining portion of arable land (zēru) that [Šumu-ukīn had not obtained]. It extends from the (tp)Aššurītu district to the (tp)Ḫidū district, on the canal of (tp)Sippar.
The annual rent amounts to 1320+;0 of barley (uṭṭatu), 60;0 of sesam (šamaššammû), and 20;0 of cress (saḫlû), to be delivered at the (tp)Big Watercourses (mû rabûti), according to the measure of the Lady of Uruk (mašīḫu). Apart from the surplus (rēḫānū) and the claims (rašūtu) regarding the flock (ṣēnu) and the full-grown cows of the Lady of Uruk, that gaze there, he is not entitled to them.
8 witnesses and the scribe Nādinu/Bēl-aḫḫē-iqīša//Egibi
Note
On this text, see Jankovic 2013, 154.
For the expression rēḫānu u rašûtu, see also TCL 12 90:24.
Further Information
- created by
- Marie Young, Oct. 9, 2025, 2:58 p.m.
- last updated by
- Marie Young, April 20, 2026, 7:55 a.m.