Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 8254
- Museum No.
- CST 089
- Primary Publication
- Knopf, Diss. 121
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P462309
- Place of issue
- Uruk city
- Regional setting
- Uruk region
- Places mentioned on Tablet
- ḪURšēninu
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Neo-Babylonian
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Ner. Acc.-00-28
- Date BCE
- 558
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
Content
- Paraphrase
Dialogue contract for the lease of Eanna land.
Nabû-aḫḫē-šullim/Nabû-udammiq, chief of plowmen (rab ikkarāti) of the Lady of Uruk, awards to Gimillu/Ardia (G) the right to work Eanna land (qaqqaru) in the (tp)ḪURšēninu irrigation district. G guarantees to cultivate (epēšu) it. For each 1;0 of land that he tills (erēšu), he will receive ½ shekel of silver. Other details of the contract are lost.
3 witnesses.
Scribe: Rēmūt-Nabû/Marduk-erība.
Further Information
- created by
- Małgorzata Sandowicz, June 8, 2026, 7:34 p.m.
- last updated by
- Małgorzata Sandowicz, June 8, 2026, 7:35 p.m.
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- Knopf, Diss.
- Studia Mesopotamica 5 (2021), 241-369