The tablet is now kept in the Archaeological Museum of Plovdiv. The records reveal only that the artefact was purchased in 1920 someplace in Asia Minor and then brought to Plovdiv.
Archaeological Museum Plovdiv, Bulgaria
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Measurements (height/width/thickness): 3.2/2.9/1.4-1.6 cm
Date: Ur III period; Reign of Amar-Suen (2046-2038 BC); Year AS 5 (ca. 2041 BC), Month 6, day?
Place: Puzriš-Dagān, modern Iraq
AMP 849 | transliteration | |
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Obverse | |
1. | 3(diš) gukkal niga | |
2. | ki u2-ta2-mi-šar- | |
3. | ra-am-ta | |
4. | na-lu5 | |
5. | i3-dab5 | |
Reverse | ||
6. | iti a2-ki-ti | |
7. | mu en-unu6-gal | |
8. | dinanna unuki | |
9. | ba-hun | |
Left edge | ||
1. | 3(diš) |
Translation
(4) Nalu (5) took over (1) three fat-tailed fattened sheep from (the household) of Ūta-mīšaram. (6) Month Akītu, year: Enunugal(anna) (9) was installed (as en-priest of) Inanna in Uruk.
Comments
For the bureau of Ūta-mīšaram and Nalu see Hilgert (2003: 71-72, resp. 64-65). See also Tsouparopoulou (2013: 5, 6, 9, 11) and Veldhuis (2012: 19); Further references to na-lu5 i3-dab5 in Sigrist and Ozaki (2009: 530). For the two main protagonists see also Feliu (2013: 227-234).
Feliu, Lluís | ||
2013 | “New Cuneiform Texts in Barcelona”. AuOr 31/2:227-234. | |
Hilgert, Markus | ||
2003 | Cuneiform Texts from the Ur III Period in the Oriental Institute, Volume 2: Drehem Administrative Documents from the Reign of Amar-Suena, OIP 121. The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago: Chicago, Illinois. | |
Sigrist, Marcel and Tohru Ozaki | ||
2009 | Neo-Sumerian administrative tablets from the Yale Babylonian Collection, Part Two, BPOA 7. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas: Madrid. | |
Tsouparopoulou, Christina | ||
2013 | “A Reconstruction of the Puzriš-Dagan Central Livestock Agency”. CDLJ 2013: 2. | |
Veldhuis, Niek | ||
2012 | “Cuneiform: Changes and Developments”. In: Stephen D. Houston (ed.) The Shape of Script. How and Why Writing Systems Change (School of Advanced Research Press: Santa Fe):3-23. |