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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.
Royal inscription of Sîn-kāšid on a votive tablet: FSU 25
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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.
Paulli G. f. P. n. Merulæ Cosmographiæ generalis libri tres: item geographiæ particvlaris libri qvatvor: quibus Evropa in genere; speciatim Hispania, Gallia, Italia, describuntur
Herennius Antoninus, decurion, to Amatios, greeting. Since the son of Balaneus who is in the watchtower is a boy, speak to the dekanos so that he may place a young man in his stead; for I also have sent orders to him about him. And send...
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...
Sealed summary of regular offerings over fourteen months, 2035 - 2034 BCE
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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...
Canones et decreta sacrosancti oecumenici, et generalis Concilii Tridentini: sub Paulo III, Iulio III, Pio IIII Pont. Max. Et bulla confirmationis. S.D.N. Et alia declaratoria. Index dogmatum, & reformationis
Sentis to Proclus her brother, greeting. You did well, brother, in giving the two kolophoia to Anchoubis; also write to me about the passage-money and I will send it to you at once. I did not send you meat, so that I might not...
Historia piscium libri quatuor: Jussu & sumptibus Societas rogiae Londinensis editi ... Totum opus recognovit, coaptavit, supplevit, librum etiam primum & secundum integros adjecit
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.
Construción grammatical de los hymnos que contiente el Brevario Romano: dividos en cinco libros, es à saber, comun de el tiempo los de Christo Señor Nuestro, de Maria Santissima, y los demas que se citan en el indice
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.
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.
List of beer rations for high officials and priests, circa 2051 BCE
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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.
Fragment is incomplete, written in a similar hand to fragment 19 and it is possible they are fragments of the same original piece. No translation is available.
Iulius Apolinaris of the turma of Aponius to Iulius Asteianus the curator, greeting. Please give Isidoros copper money since I promise to you whatever you send me from your own means. I borrowed from the villiage and I wish to repay....
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.
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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