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FSU 01
Title
FSU 01.
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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FSU 03
Title
FSU 03.
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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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FSU 04
Title
FSU 04.
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 06
Title
FSU 06.
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A small, rather damaged tablet recording the disbursement of grain for various reasons.
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FSU_Tablet_06
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FSU 07
Title
FSU 07.
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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FSU 08
Title
FSU 08.
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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.
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FSU_Tablet_08
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FSU 09
Title
FSU 09.
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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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FSU 10
Title
FSU 10.
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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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FSU 11
Title
FSU 11.
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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FSU 12
Title
FSU 12.
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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FSU 13
Title
FSU 13.
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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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FSU 14
Title
FSU 14.
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.
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FSU_Tablet_14
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FSU 15
Title
FSU 15.
Abstract/Description
None possible; tablet is too illegible.
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FSU_Tablet_15
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FSU 16
Title
FSU 16.
Abstract/Description
This small sealed, but undated tablet is too damaged to identify its original function or provenance.
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FSU_Tablet_16
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FSU 17
Title
FSU 17.
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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FSU 18
Title
FSU 18.
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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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FSU 19
Title
FSU 19.
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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FSU 20
Title
FSU 20.
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This document records calves and donkey foals destined to become plough animals and the grain they are fed.
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FSU_Tablet_20
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FSU 21
Title
FSU 21.
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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FSU 22
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FSU 22.
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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.
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FSU_Tablet_22
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FSU 23
Title
FSU 23.
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.
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FSU_Tablet_23
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FSU 24
Title
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.
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FSU_Tablet_24
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