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A list of goods for scribes
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A list of goods for scribes.
Abstract/Description
Most of the obverse of this tablet is too damaged to read, but the reverse suggests that it is a list of items handed out to personnel, at least some of whom were scribes. The fact that the distributed items were weighed suggests that they were not grain rations but rather metals or wool.
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FSU_Tablet_13
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Administrative note, 1790 BCE
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Administrative note, 1790 BCE.
Abstract/Description
Another badly damaged administrative record, apparently noting the distribution of grain to a single individual.
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FSU_Tablet_11
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Damaged administrative document
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Damaged administrative document.
Abstract/Description
Almost nothing except the date survives of this small administrative record, but the morphology of the tablet and the style of hand-writing suggest that it was probably an early administrative record like FSU 6 and FSU 11.
Identifier
FSU_Tablet_14
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Damaged sealed letter order
Title
Damaged sealed letter order.
Abstract/Description
This small sealed, but undated tablet is too damaged to identify its original function or provenance.
Identifier
FSU_Tablet_16
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Delivery of dead sheep, 2053 BCE
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Delivery of dead sheep, 2053 BCE.
Abstract/Description
This tablet contains a brief record of livestock that were dead on arrival at their destination (or that died shortly thereafter). Living animals from the same herd would have been accounted for on a separate tablet.
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FSU_Tablet_10
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Delivery of sheep and goats
Title
Delivery of sheep and goats.
Abstract/Description
This tablet summarizes the delivery of various sheep and goats recorded by at least two different scribes (the beginning and end of the document are missing), but most of the livestock noted by Ğiri-Šara-idab have since died.
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FSU_Tablet_01
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Disbursement of garments, 2033 BCE
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Disbursement of garments, 2033 BCE.
Abstract/Description
This rather difficult, damaged tablet seems to record the disbursement of garments to prisoners from named individuals. Most extant lists of clothing gifts record the weight of each length of cloth. This record, however, does not.
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FSU_Tablet_04
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FSU Tablet 15
Title
FSU Tablet 15.
Abstract/Description
None possible; tablet is too illegible.
Identifier
FSU_Tablet_15
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List of beer rations for high officials and priests, circa 2051 BCE
Title
List of beer rations for high officials and priests, circa 2051 BCE.
Abstract/Description
This is a very unusual record, documenting the distribution of ‘high quality beer’ for a variety of priests and priestesses in Umma, who were perhaps attached to the temple of the city-god Šara.
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FSU_Tablet_03
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List of sheep and goats
Title
List of sheep and goats.
Abstract/Description
This fragmentary tablet assigns livestock (as rations?) to senior members of the Umma administration.
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FSU_Tablet_12
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List of sheep and goats for sacrifice
Title
List of sheep and goats for sacrifice: FSU 05.
Abstract/Description
This tablet allocates different numbers of animals for sacrifice to (the statues of) several major deities, male and female, in the god Iškur’s temple, as well as to the goddess Allatum.
Identifier
FSU_MSS2016002_B01_I5_parent
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Note about grain
Title
Note about grain: FSU 02.
Abstract/Description
This undated, unsigned note records over 100,000 litres of grain entering a store room. The erased numerals on the reverse suggest it was written in the process of drawing up a more formal record of account. Identical quantities of grain are mentioned in BIN 5, 113, a grain account of one Ur-saga from Puzriš-Dagan (Šulgi year 37).
Identifier
FSU_MSS2016002_B01_I2_parent
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Receipt of sheep and goats, 2037 BCE
Title
Receipt of sheep and goats, 2037 BCE.
Abstract/Description
An administrator receives small numbers of sheep and goats destined for various senior officials.
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FSU_Tablet_07
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Receipt of sheep and goats, 2046 BCE
Title
Receipt of sheep and goats, 2046 BCE.
Abstract/Description
This tablet, from the state livestock collection center at Puzriš-Dagan, documents the birth of lambs and kids to animals that were under the center’s administration, and hands them to a named individual for rearing.
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FSU_Tablet_09
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Record of grain, 1788 BCE
Title
Record of grain: FSU 06.
Abstract/Description
A small, rather damaged tablet recording the disbursement of grain for various reasons.
Identifier
FSU_Tablet_06
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Record of withdrawals from a sealed warehouse, 2053 BCE
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Record of withdrawals from a sealed warehouse, 2053 BCE.
Abstract/Description
Two quantities of grain, or a similarly fluid commodity, are apparently transferred from a sealed warehouse to the temples of Enlil and Ninil in this rather damaged document.
Identifier
FSU_Tablet_08
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Royal inscription of Sîn-kāšid on a votive cone
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Royal inscription of Sîn-kāšid on a votive cone: FSU 24.
Abstract/Description
This clay cone bears a well-known votive inscription for Sîn-kāšid, king of Uruk, commemorating the (re)building of the goddess Inana’s temple E-ana at Uruk. The text, a variant of FSU 25, is published as RIME 4.4.1.3.
Identifier
FSU_Tablet_24
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Royal inscription of Sîn-kāšid on a votive tablet
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Royal inscription of Sîn-kāšid on a votive tablet: FSU 25.
Abstract/Description
This tablet bears a well-known votive inscription for Sîn-kāšid, king of Uruk, commemorating the (re)building of the goddess Inanna’s temple Eanna at Uruk. The text, a variant of FSU 24, is published as RIME 4.4.1.4.
Identifier
FSU_MSS2016002_B02_I25_parent
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Sealed account of agricultural labor
Title
Sealed account of agricultural labor.
Abstract/Description
Like FSU 23, this tablet records an agricultural labor team’s maintenance work on fields in which crops are growing. It calculates the theoretical labor expended on the basis of standardized work rates, distinguishing between regular team members (erin2) and hired labor (lu2 huĝ-ĝa2). There are no toponyms or officials’ names to help identify its provenance, but almost all such accounts are from Umma.
Identifier
FSU_Tablet_22
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Sealed account of agricultural labor, 2039 BCE
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Sealed account of agricultural labor, 2039 BCE.
Abstract/Description
At Umma the management of state-owned land was contracted to teams of twenty or so agricultural laborers headed by an overseer. Running accounts were kept which recorded work owed and work performed year by year (Englund 1991). This tablet records weeding activities in three well known fields in the Umma district.
Identifier
FSU_Tablet_23
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Sealed list of cattle and fodder, 2044 BCE
Title
Sealed list of cattle and fodder, 2044 BCE.
Abstract/Description
This document records calves and donkey foals destined to become plough animals and the grain they are fed.
Identifier
FSU_Tablet_20
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Sealed note about reed bundles, 2042 BCE
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Sealed note about reed bundles, 2042 BCE.
Abstract/Description
A note about reed bundles. Reeds were a staple crop of Umma, on the edge of the southern Iraqi marshes. They were used as building materials and to weave a variety of mats, baskets, and other everyday objects.
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FSU_Tablet_19
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Sealed receipt of fodder for sacrificial sheep, 2026 BCE
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Sealed receipt of fodder for sacrificial sheep, 2026 BCE.
Abstract/Description
Animals were sacrificed daily to Šara, the city god of Umma. Although this tablet does not say so explicitly, this must also have been the fate of the sheep recorded here, given the recipient’s known connection to the temple household.
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FSU_Tablet_21
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Sealed receipt of wood from bala labor, 2040 BCE
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Sealed receipt of wood from bala labor, 2040 BCE.
Abstract/Description
This tablet documents the delivery of large tree-trunks cut as part of the annual bala-labor service for the city of Umma.
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FSU_Tablet_18
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Sealed summary of regular offerings over fourteen months, 2035 - 2034 BCE
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Sealed summary of regular offerings over fourteen months, 2035 - 2034 BCE.
Abstract/Description
The statues of the gods were offered regular meals of grain and meat (which were then redistributed to temple personnel). This tablet summarizes the grain disbursed to Šara, the city-god of Umma, and Šulgi, the deified former king since the last annual accounting.
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FSU_Tablet_17
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