Tablet

Classification/Broad: Writing

Classification/Specific: Tablet

Material/Broad: Clay

Material/Specific: Clay, Baked

Measurements: 30X25X12 MM

Description: Small tablet inscribed with a record of victuals (beer wort, high-quality beer, bread, oil, soap, fish, and bundles of onions) issued to two named individuals (a messenger text). No additonal information is provided on where these individuals are travelling to or coming from. Their recipients names are Šū-Suen and Inim-Utu. The tablet is dated to month 7 of Amar-Suen year 8. It comes from Umma. Compared to other tablets belonging to the messenger text genre, the script of this tablet is "normal" sized rather than a micro script.

Region: Dhi Qar governorate

Country: Iraq

Place/site: Umma

Place/other: --

Locus: --

Period: Ur III

Date: Amar-Suen year 8

Culture: --

Dynasty: Third Dynasty of Ur

King/Ruler: Amar-Sin Year 8

Inscribed: Yes

Inscription Sequence Number: 1

Inscription Language: Sumerian

Script: Cuneiform

Dialect: --

Inscription Description: YES

Inscription Subject: messenger text

Inscription Type: Administrative

Inscription Location: Obverse and Reverse

Translation:

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Transliteration One:

Obv. 1. 1 dida(BI.U2.SA) 5 sila3 kaš sig5
2. 0.0.1 ninda 2 gin2 i3 2 gin2 / naga 
3. 3 ku6 3 sa šum2
4. Šu-{d}Suen
5. 1 dida(BI.U2.SA) 5 sila3 kaš sig5
6. 0.0.1 ninda 2 gin2 i3 2 gin2 / naga 
Rev. 1. 3 ku6 3 sa šum2
2. Inim-{d}[Ut]u
3. šu-nigin2 2 dida gen 0.0.1
4. šu-nigin2 0.0.1 kaš sig5 šu-nigin2 0.0.2 ninda
5. šu-nigin2 4 gin2 i3 šu-nigin2 4 gin2 / naga
6. šu-nigin2 6 ku6 šu-nigin2 6 sa šum2
7. ud 4-kam iti min-eš3
8. mu en Eridu{ki} ba-hun

Transliteration by Ryan D. Winters

Transliteration Two:

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Transliteration Three:

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Registration Number: A4262

Accession Number: 487 A

Field Number: --