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Sumerian administrative document on clay tablet in cuneiform script 6., Sealed receipt of millstone of black basalt, MULC 6
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One clay tablet with Sumerian cuneiform writing from the Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BCE) period of Sumeria. The text records five millstones of black basalt withdrawn from the account of Adu.
The personal names Akalla, the leatherworker, and Šara-zame, are exclusively found in Umma texts; see, for instance, TCL 5, 5672, BIN 5, 106, AAS 72, Nik 2, 263, BIN 5, 48, MVN 4, 120, and MVN 13, 213.
Obv. 1 and 3: The reading of kikken (also kinkin, sign ḪAR) preceding a2-da-bar derives from na4kikken ad-bar, with the meaning of "millstone of black basalt," for which see OB Nippur Ura 4 Seg. 1, 106. The term is discussed by Stol 1979: 83-88. T...
Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative catalog data: Museum number: MULC 6 ; Catalogue source: 20061202 englund ; Primary publication: CDLB 2012/2 ʹ2.5 ; Dates referenced: Shu-Suen.05.00.00 ; UCLA Library ARK: 21198/zz0020ng0c ; CDLI number: P345966.
Special Collections holds eight cuneiform tablets whose exact provenance is unknown. Seven of the tablets were donated to MU Libraries by the now-defunct Ernest McClary Todd Museum, formerly a part of the School of Journalism at the University of ...
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