Basic Metadata

NaBuCCo ID
8555
Museum No.
HS 2936
Primary Publication
Period
Achaemenid
Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
XXX. yy-mm-dd
Inferred date
357-338

Digeanna

Text Form
Contract (various verbs)
Legal Purpose
Lease (ana ...ūti nadānu, ṣabātu; ina pāni)
Format of the tablet
portrait
Sealings
True

Content

Paraphrase

Lease agreement

Nabû-[...]/[...] leased out [break] to Barūḫ-Bēl/[...] in exchange for fifteen kurru of dates. He (Barūḫ-Bēl) will pay (nadānu) Nār-Bēl those fifteen kurru of dates yearly in the month and additionally per kurru he will pay a sūtu surcharge, a date-frond basket, a bundle of baked dates, palm bast and a load of firewood. 

He will carry out the digging in m.V to ensure moisture and he will protect the shoots and fronds. In (tp)Kullab Nabû-[...] will [break] and Barūḫ-Bēl will take flour of the amount of five sūtu.

Names at least 1 witness

6 seals on the backside. One is the seal of Barūḫ-Bēl and one of Nādinu.


Further Information

Type and Content
Leases
created by
Kira Awege, Sept. 1, 2026, 12:36 p.m.
last updated by
Kira Awege, Sept. 1, 2026, 2:13 p.m.