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the crowns... / Why are you crazily rocking a silent / barbarian woman without pleasure? / So that you can talk and laugh / in front of me? Since I'm willing, / pal, take whatever you / need. I'll give (myself) pathetically, / in a way...
Palm leaf manuscript with text in unidentified South Asian script, provenance unknown. Two drilled holes in center for rope to hold multiple leaves together.
Sealed receipt of fodder for sacrificial sheep, 2026 BCE
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.
Maximus to Tinarsieges his sister, many greetings and in everything good health. If you are coming to your days of giving birth, write to me so that I may come and perform your delivery, since I do not know your month. I wrote to you in...
Record of withdrawals from a sealed warehouse, 2053 BCE
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.
Royal inscription of Sîn-kāšid on a votive cone: FSU 24
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.
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.
Mevianus to Harpochras, greeting. Get from Ammonianus the cavalryman the purple, three staters in weight, sealed and purchased for 19 drachmas. I will send you the bit of wool by way of cibariator. Farewell.
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...
Date:
2058 BCE, Ur III, undated but probably Šulgi year 37
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...
Claudius Archibios to Aristoboulos his colleague greeting. I have sent Paprenis of the turma of Antoninus and Iulius Antoninus of the turma of Tullius to Aphis on Thoth 4 in place of Aponius Petronianus and Iulius Apollinarius. I pray...
- - - to Theon his brother, [many] greetings. Before all I pray you are well, with your horse who is free from the evil eye. I did not find someone to bring the barley to you. If you wish, send your servant and let him get it.
Publius to A - - - os his son many greetings and in everything good health, with your horse whom the evil eye does not touch. I send to you Quintus the veterinarian the andromax and the boiled wood-bird, since there is no meat for sale....
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...
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