Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 7064
- Museum No.
- FLP 1605
- Primary Publication
- Dillard 1975
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P460113
- Place of issue
- Kār-Nanāya
- Regional setting
- Uruk region
- Places mentioned on Tablet
- Tīl-atūnāti
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Neo-Babylonian
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Nbn. 16-00-27
- Inferred date
- ca. 04.05.540-25.03.539 BCE
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)
- Higher-order management and policies
- Format of the tablet
- landscape
- Private context
- True
Content
- Paraphrase
Kalbāya/Iqīša//Basia (K) and Mukīn-apli/Zēria (MA) of the king (ša šarri) conclude a contract (uˀiltu eˀēlu) to jointly cultivate barley (dullu ša uṭṭati) on the land of the Lady of Uruk.
Together, K and MZ will give (nadānu) a royal greeting gift (nāmurtu) and the king’s provisioning (šuṣbuttu ša šarri). They will cultivate the field with the amount of seed that they indicate (kullumu) and the oxen and plowmen that they share (zâzu). They shall share the usufruct.
Each took a copy of the contract (šaṭāru).
7 witnesses.
Scribe: Šamaš-zēru-ušebši/Nergal-ina-tēšî-ēṭir//Tabnēa.
Written at the (tp)Quay of Nanāya (Kār-Nanāya), the estate (šīḫu) of Lady-of-Uruk, in (tp)Tīl-atūnāti.
Notes
Kalbāya/Iqīša//Basia was a well-known rent farmer of Eanna, see Janković 2013: 186-199.
Further Information
- created by
- Piotr Turowski, Feb. 4, 2026, 7:39 p.m.
- last updated by
- Piotr Turowski, Feb. 25, 2026, 10:09 p.m.
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- Dillard 1975