Sumerian administrative document on clay tablet in cuneiform script 3.

-2100

-2000

One clay tablet with Sumerian cuneiform writing. The text records a number of sheep and goats withdrawn for various purposes from the Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BCE) period of Sumeria.

Obv. 7: Steinkeller 1995: 52 discusses the meaning of A.LUM = aslumx as "long-fleeced." For the discussion of nu2-a, see Steinkeller 1995: 55 and Heimpel 1993: 133-134. Rev. 1: For the interpretation of e2 uz-ga, see Johnson 2004: ʹ3.2, Sigrist 1992: 158-162 and Wu 1996. Rev. 10: The phrase šu-gid2 means "to extend (one's) hand, to take or accept." According to Sigrist 1992: 40-42, in Drehem texts it often designates animals delivered by shepherds or distributed to the kitchen.

Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative catalog data: Museum number: MULC 3 ; Catalogue source: 20061202 englund ; Primary publication: CDLB 2012/2 ʹ2.2 ; Dates referenced: Shulgi.46.07.28 ; UCLA Library ARK: 21198/zz0020nfwb ; CDLI number: P345963.

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 Missouri. They probably came to the University in the early twentieth century. Tablet MULC 8 (Z113 .P3 1#1 item 1a) was acquired as part of the Pages from the Past collection, which was a portfolio of leaves and artifacts sold by Foliophiles in the 1960s. Six of the tablets date from the Ur III period (2100-2000 BCE), are written in Sumerian, and most likely come from the Umma and Drehem archives. Identifications, translations, and dates for these six tablets were determined in 2012 by Changyu Liu of the University of Heidelberg. The remaining two tablets are thought to be from the Old Babylonian period (1900-1600 BCE) and are currently unedited. Images and complete information about the tablets can be accessed at the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative at the University of California Los Angeles.

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MULC 3

Sumerian language

Sumerians -- Commerce

Drehem (Extinct city) -- Antiquities

SumerianSUX

1 clay tablet

Cuneiform tablets

Cuneiform inscriptions, Sumerian

923354858

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