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Title: Sumerian administrative document on clay tablet in cuneiform script 6., Sealed receipt of millstone of black basalt, MULC 6
Date: -2100--2000
Summary: 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 The text records five millstones of black basalt withdrawn from the account of Adu.

Title: Sumerian administrative document on clay tablet in cuneiform script 1., MULC 1
Date: -2100--2000
Summary: One clay tablet with Sumerian cuneiform writing from the Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BCE) period. This is one of the so-called "messenger texts," that generally list six types of goods (beer, bread, oil, naga, fish, onion) in quite regular quantities. The commodity designated as naga is generally held to be a product derived from an alkali-bearing plant; based on its common attestation together with what were presumably dried fish, this product may in turn have been used in the preparation of fish or other foodstuffs.