The Rental Houses in the Neo-Babylonian Period (VI-V centuries BC)

by Stefan Zawadzki

Overview

Stefan Zawadzki's new book is the first comprehensive study on the rental of houses in the Neo-Babylonian period, owned by private persons as well by the temples. The book is based on the published, but mostly unpublished tablets housed in the British Museum, which result in many important observations made concerning the differences in the time of rent payment in the case of private owners and the temple; delays in payment; changes in contract conditions caused by the political situation; relations between owner and tenants, etc. The new documents enabled the establishment of a list of house rent collectors of the Ebabbar temple in Sippar, their social position (and that the same system was used also in the Esagila temple), the yearly income of the Ebabbar temple from the rental of houses and the social position of the tenants (majority of them were members of the temple personnel) and the annual amount of rent paid by tenants.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788387111755
Publisher:	Agade Publishing
Publication date:	12/27/2018
Pages:	343
Product dimensions:	6.60(w) x 9.30(h) x 0.90(d)

Table of Contents

Preface Abbreviations 1. Introduction 2. Rental of private houses 2.1. Contracts and receipts 2.1.1 Praenumerando and postnumerando rent payment 2.2 Contracts 2.2.1 The object of the contract 2.2.2 Location of the houses 2.2.3 The owner and tenant 2.2.3.1 Families of owners of rented houses in Babylon 2.2.3.2 Families of tenants of houses in Babylon 2.2.3.3 Families of owners of rented houses in Borsippa 2.2.3.4 The families of tenants of houses in Borsippa 2.2.3.5 The family of tenants of houses in Sippar 2.2.4 The period rental and rental fee 2.2.5 The deadline for rent payment and means of payment 2.2.6 Praenumerando payment of house rent in the contracts 2.2.7 Day of writing the contract and day when the tenant moved into the house 2.2.8 Means of payment and frequency of payment 2.2.9 Monthly or daily payment and personal situation of the house owner 2.2.10 Impact of political (economic) crisis on means of payment and frequency of payment of house rent 2.3 Obligations of the house tenant 2.3.1 batqa a asurri .abatu 2.3.2 ura anu and .ida akanu 2.3.3 guure ina libbi .abatu 2.3.4 sira nasqa akanu 2.3.5 The payment of nuptu/ugarru 2.3.6 Payment of penalty by contravener (nabalkattanu) 2.3.7 The day, when the tenant will move into a house 3. Rental of temple houses 3.1 Typology of texts 3.2 The lease of the temple houses to private persons 3.3 The house rent of the temple servants 3.4 The frequency of rent payment 3.5 Delays in payment of rent 3.6 The house rent collectors 3.6.0.1 Uaya 3.6.0.2 ama-iqia 3.6.1 Arad-Bel/Nabu-a..e-iddin 3.6.2 Nabu-um-iddin/ama-aplu-u.ur//Ilei-Marduk 3.6.3 Nadin 3.6.4 Bel-uallim/ama-ibni 3.6.5 ama-mudammiq/uzubu//angu-Sippar 3.6.6 Ina-.illi-Nergal 3.6.7 Iqia-Marduk/Etel-pi-ama//angu-Sippar 3.6.8 Lu.i-ana-nuri 4. The temple houses, their location and quality 4.1 Location of the Sun god houses 4.2 Condition of houses 4.3 The tenants of the houses of the Sun god 4.4 Living conditions of the temple tenants 4.5 The question of sublease 4.6 Economic importance of house rental for the Ebabbar temple 4.7 Way of use silver obtained from rental of houses 5. Summary 6. Text editions 6.1 Contracts between individual persons and the Ebabbar temple 6.2 The contract between the temple authority and Lu.i-ana-nuri appointing him a muhhi bitati 6.3 Settlement of account of made by the rent collector 6.4 The House Rent Payment Lists 6.5 Redistribution of silver from the rental of houses 6.6 Texts not edited 6.7 Contracts between private people 7. Indexes 7.1 Index of Personal Names 7.2 Family Names 7.3 Geographical Names 7.4 Index of Titles, Professions and Social Groups 7.5 Selected Akkadian Words 7.6 Index of Texts Bibliography