Babylonian Slaves: 14 (2024-05-30)

Created by: Englund, Robert K.

Slave accounts of the Late Uruk period (ca. 3350-3000 BC)

A much larger account in the Norwegian Schøyen collection adds, in terms of numbers, an entirely new dimension to the bookkeeping format witnessed in the previous two Uruk texts (the Schøyen text, MS 3035, derives from the antiquities market and is paralleled by only one other known text, copied by the Belgian Assyriologist Philippe Talon years ago and since gone into the Musées royaux d’Art et d’Histoire, Brussels). Here, some 32 apparent slaves with personal names are recorded in a single group of an account that totals 85 such individuals. CDLI entry: P006268

credit: Englund, Robert K.