Tablet

Classification/Broad: Writing

Classification/Specific: Tablet

Material/Broad: Clay

Material/Specific: Clay (Clay)

Measurements: 64X42X20 MM

Description: Tablet inscribed in Old Akkadian script with a record of barley listed in association with eight individuals, totaling 2,820 liters, defined as ŠE GU4 "barley of oxen." The recipients were probably agricultural managers of the heads of plow-teams. Although it is not specified, this text used the larger 300-liter “Akkad gur” rather than the smaller 240-liter gur-sag-gal2, as demonstrated by the notation 4(PI), which would be redundant with a 240-liter gur, and the calculation of the total from the individual entries. 240 liters each are received by Abba, Kurub-Ilum, Si-HUR.SAG, Dati, Dada, and Eštar-nu’id; 1,260 by Zawi, and [120] by Šamaš-bītum. The given total of 2,820 is correct. The tablet bears a date of month 5 (iti ha-lu5-ut), but no year is specified. This tablet was purchased in 1930, but internal evidence and comparison with excavated tablets proves that it must have come from Tell Asmar (ancient Ešnunna). It probably dates to the reign of either Narām-Sîn or Šar-kali-šarri.

Region: Diyala

Country: Iraq

Place/site: Tell Asmar

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Period: Akkadian

Date: month 5

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Dynasty: Dynasty of Akkad

King/Ruler: --

Inscribed: Yes

Inscription Sequence Number: 1

Inscription Language: Akkadian Language

Script: Cuneiform

Dialect: Old Akkadian

Inscription Description: CUNEIFORM

Inscription Subject: barley

Inscription Type: Administrative

Inscription Location: Obverse and Reverse

Translation:

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Registration Number: A7818

Accession Number: 1034

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