Tablet

Classification/Broad: Writing

Classification/Specific: Tablet

Material/Broad: Clay

Material/Specific: Clay, Baked

Measurements: 78X42X21 MM

Description: Long tablet inscribed with a list of bows, quivers, an arrows, presented as a type of payment or offering (maš2-da-ri-a) on some unspecified occasion by 13 different individuals, among whom is the governor of Adab. Based on the tablet's appearance and script it certainly dates to the late Sargonic period. Most likely it was excavated by the Oriental Institute at Adab, but mistakenly separated from that group of tablets and included in a later accession group. Contains several non-standard spellings (e.g. the word for 'bow' is written ba-na instead of pan/pa-na; the PN Šū-Mama is written Šum-{d}Ma-ma).

Region: Wasit governorate

Country: Iraq

Place/site: Bismaya

Place/other: --

Locus: --

Period: Akkadian

Date: --

Culture: --

Dynasty: --

King/Ruler: --

Inscribed: Yes

Inscription Sequence Number: 1

Inscription Language: Sumerian

Script: Cuneiform

Dialect: --

Inscription Description: Inventory of bows, arrows, and quivers as payment and their donors

Inscription Subject: bows, arrows, quivers

Inscription Type: Administrative

Inscription Location: Obverse and Reverse

Translation:

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Transliteration One:

Obverse:

1) 4 {giš}ba-n[a]⎡1 e2-mar⎤-[uru5]

2) 60 kak ba-na

3) šu-[...]-li

4) 2 {gi[š}ba]-na [x e2-mar-uru5]

5) 22 kak

6) LUGAL-ra NI-⎡x⎤-[(x)]

7) 1 {gi[š]}ba-na 30 kak

8) ensi2 [a]dab{ki}

9) 3 {giš}ba-na [1]5? kak

10) ŠEŠ-ŠEŠ

11) 2 {giš}ba-na 3 e2-mar-uru5

12) 11 kak

13) ur-zu šagina

14) 2 {giš}ba-na 1 e2-mar-uru5

15) 60 kak

16) gi-nu-mu-si

Reverse:

17) 2 {giš}ba-na 15 e2-mar-uru5

18) šum-{d}ma-ma

19) 1 {giš}ba-na 1 e2-[m]ar-uru5

20) 30 kak

21) lugal-sag9 dumu mes-zi

22) 40 kak HI-p[u3]

23) 60 kak da-da šabra

24) 4 {giš}ba-na ur-{d}šara2 šabra

25) 1 {giš}ba-na 60 kak

26) {d}utu-sag9 šagina

27) [x] {giš}ba-na ur-zu lu2-{giš}gigir

28) [šu-nigin2] 10 x 2 + 1 + [2] gišba-na

29) [šu-nigin2 x] ⎡e2⎤-mar-uru5

30) šu-nigin2 60 x ⎡6⎤+ [10 x 4] + 3 kak ba-na maš2-da-ri-[a]


[transliteration after Miguel Civil, JCS 55, 2003, and Daniel A. Foxvog of CDLI, entry P391522]

Transliteration Two:

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Transliteration Three:

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Registration Number: A2736

Accession Number: 248

Field Number: --