Administrative tablet excavated in Umma (mod. Tell Jokha), dated to the Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC) period and now kept in Spurlock Museum, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA
Image
© Spurlock Museum, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA
Transliteration
tablet
obverse
1. 1(gesz2) 3(u) 3(disz) geme2 u4 1(disz)-sze3
en: 93 female laborer workdays,
2. zar3 tab-ba szu ur3-ra
en: shocks gathered, leveled,
3. u3 sze u4-de3 de6-a ri-ri-ga
en: and barley to the day delivered, fallen;
4. a-sza3 ka-ma-ri2{ki}
en: (in the) field of Kamari,
5. a-sza3 {d}szara2
en: field of Šara,
reverse
1. u3 a-sza3 la2-mah
en: and field of Lamaḫ;
2. ki a-du-ta
en: from Adu,
3. kiszib3 a-du-mu
en: under seal of Adumu;
blank space
seal impression
4. mu ma2 {d}en-ki ba-ab-du8
en: year: “The boat of Enki was caulked.”
seal 1
1. ur-{d}suen
en: Ur-Suen,
2. dub-sar
en: scribe,
3. dumu ur-{gesz}gigir sza3-tam
en: son of Ur-gigir; official (seal).