The Haverford Library of Cuneiform Tablets I

<r
THE HAVERFORD LIBRARY COLLECTION

OF
CUNEIFORM TABLETS
HAVERFORD LIBRARY COLLECTION

OF
CUNEIFORM TABLETS
OR
DOCUMENTS FROM THE TEMPLE

ARCHIVES OF TELLOH
EDITED BY
GEORGE
A.
BARTON
MAWR COLLEGE
PROFESSOR IN BRYN
PART
NEW HAVEN YALE

:
UNIVERSITY PRESS
:
LONDON
HUMPHREY MILFORD
OXFORD UNIVERSITY
PRESS
MDCCCCXVIII
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION

texts
This edition of the Haverford Library Collection has been issued in order that these might still be accessible to scholars. The author regrets that, owing to the expense
it
involved,
has not been possible to rewrite Part unchanged as has been done. Those who use the
this part
book
rather than to let the plates remain are requested to bear in mind that
appeared in 1905, and that, if he were at liberty to rewrite the volume to-day, it would be done quite differently. The texts will, it is hoped, be of use to scholars in their
Attention is called to the fact that the text on plate 16 of Part present form. corrected form on plate 154 of Part III. The first edition of this work was published by the John C. Winston
Philadelphia.
I
appears in
Company of
GEORGE
A.
BARTON.
Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania,

June, 1918.
ERRATA.
l'a?, e 10,
r
No. 220,
Xo. 144,
Xo. 193,
IV,
rev.,
place period at end of line

1.
3.
1'a.ne
10,
rev.,
3,
begin line with capital T.

read to instead of of.
1'age
i,
rev.
1.
7,
Page
iC, Col.
1.
9,
place
comma
instead of period at the end
of the line.
INTRODUCTION.
The one hundred and seventeen new
hundred
tablets,
texts here presented are the
first
of the
Haverford
Library Collection of cuneiform tablets to be published.

in
This collection, consisting of four

1
New York autumn of 1901 and presented to Haverford was purchased During the winter of College by T. Wistar Brown, President of the Corporation of that college. 1901-1902 a catalogue of the collection was prepared, but my departure for Palestine in June,
in the
autumn of 1903. Since then they have received such time as could be spared from other studies and the duties of instruction. As these conditions of work will make it impossible to complete the editorial labor upon the whole
1902,
made
further
work upon these
tablets impossible until the
has seemed best to issue the text in parts, so that the material may be accessible to scholars with as little delay as possible. With the last part a sign list and vocabcollection for
some
years,
it
ulary will be issued.
Although the tablets were purchased
in
New
York, there
is
reason to believe, as the
title
Since some peculiar claims have of this work indicates, that they came originally from Telloh. been made of late as to power to divine the original provenance of tablets purchased in the markets of the world, a few words
be in place concerning the reasons which lead me to believe that the Haverford Library Collection was once a part of the temple archives of Telloh. The present writer lays no claim to powers of divination beyond the ken of his fellow- workers. The
may
reasons, then, are as follows:

1.
In 1894 the
workmen
of
M. de Sarzec at Telloh discovered a chamber which contained

There were so
an immense number of tablets
estimated at thirty thousand.
impossible for M. de Sarzec and his assistants to properly care for them. accordingly stolen by the Arabs. In the campaigns of 1895, 1898, and 1900 somewhat similar
finds
many that it was Many tablets were
were made. 2
2.
Since 1894
many
tablets of the period before
Hammurabi,
tablets, too, of similar
varieties, form, clay
and palaeography,
have been offered for
sale in different parts of the
world.
has acquired many, which have been published in Cuneiform Texts From Babylonian Tablets in the British Museum, Parts I, III, V, VII, IX, and X. The Royal Museum at Berlin acquired some three hundred and ten, which were published in 1901 as
British
The
Museum
Heft
the
XVI
title
of the
Museum's Mittheilungen aus den
Tempelurkunden aus Telloh. appearance to those which came to the Louvre from Telloh, a part of which M. Thureau-Dangin published in his Tablettes chaldeennes infdites, 1897, and Recueil de tablettes chaldeennes, 1903. M.
Sammlungen by Reisner under These publications contain texts similar in nature and
Orientalischen
Thureau-Dangin assures
me
in a private letter that the
Louvre contains many unpublished tab-
'They were purchased of Mr. Gullabi Gulbenkian. A brief notice of the collection was published in the American Journal of Archeology, Vol. VI (1902), p. 36 ff. J Cf. Revue d'Assyriologie, Vol. Ill, No. iv, pp. 118 ff., Vol. IV, No. i, pp. 13 ff., ibid. No. iii, pp. 69 ff., Vol. V, No. iii, pp. 67 ff., Comptes rendus de V Academic des Inscriptions, 1896, pp. 355 ff., Rogers, History of Babylonia and Assyria, 1900, Vol. I, p.
238,
and M. Thureau-Dangin, Recueil de
tablettes chaldeennes, 1903, p. i.
lets of
lin.
the same kind as those contained in the publications of the
Museums
of
London and Ber-
The General Theological Seminary of New York City acquired in 1896, through the generosity of Dean Hoffman a collection of cuneiform tablets, a part of which consists of tablets Some of these were published by Radau similar in form and contents to those under discussion. The American Vice-Consul at Jerusalem, Mr. as an appendix to his Early Babylonian History.
,
Herbert Clark, has also a small collection of tablets of a similar character which he kindly permitted me to examine. They are evidently from the same source. A gentleman in Philadelphia
has also recently acquired a small collection of the same nature and style. The Haverford tablets, as may be seen from a comparison of those published below with those contained in the works mentioned, are of the same period and the same varieties. The only reasonable conclusion
is
that de Sarzec's discovery explains
why
so
many
such tablets have been offered for sale in
different parts of the world.

3.
An
internal study of the tablets supports this conclusion.

city
Girsu, Nina, Kinunir,

site of Telloh,
and Tigabba, all parts or suburbs of the mentioned more often than other towns.
texts bear the
which once flourished on the
are
gods of this
names of town, more frequently than those

it is
The theophorous proper names contained in these Ningirsu, Bau, Nina, Nana, Ninmar, Ningishzida, and Ninshah, all
of other deities.
For these reasons
believed that the sub-title of this
work
is justified.
In spite of
all
claims to the contrary, there is no infallible Assyriological wizard capable of discerning the provenance of tablets in the absence of objective evidence which will appeal to other specialists. It
not pretended that such a wizard resides chez nous. If, therefore, the above reasons do not convince the reader, he is at liberty to believe that the source of these tablets is unknown.
:
Haverford College who are not Assyriologists a few words about Telloh may not be out of place. Telloh is a mound more than four miles long in southern Babylonia, about sixty miles north of Mugheir, the Biblical Ur of the Chaldees. Excavations
For the benefit
of the friends of
were begun here by M. de Sarzec, the French consul at Bassorah, in March, 1877. De Sarzec dug for three months in 1877, more than three months in 1878, about four months in 1880, two
and many times afterward until his recent death. He has dug systematically, unearthing palaces and temples of the highest antiquity, and bringing to light a most remarkable city. Many inscribed objects have been recovered, the most remarkable of which
months and a
half in 1881
is
the so-called Stele of Vultures, bearing an inscription of

C.,
Eannadu who reigned about 4100

B. C.
B.
and eleven
diorite statues of
Gudea who ruled about 3000
Thousands
of tablets
have also been recovered.
From
was
these inscribed objects
we
learn that the city which created the

cities,
mound
of Telloh
called Shirpurla,
and that
it
consisted in reality of four other
Girsu, Nina, Erim,
and Uruazagga. Kinunir and Tigabba were also either parts of it or suburbs of it. Each settlement was originally independent. The oldest king of this region of whom we know, Urkagina,
about 4300 B. C., calls himself simply King of Girsu. Soon, however, one ruler governed all under the name Shirpurla. Early Babylonian history is a record of struggle for hegemony between
In this struggle Shirpurla at times had preeminence. Then her rulers called themselves kings. Often, however, Shirpurla was the vassal of another state; then her rulers
different cities.
called themselves Patesi.
Some
of these, like Gudea, were powerful
monarchs and practically
independent.
about 2400 B.
At the time from which our tablets come, the period of the third dynasty of Ur, C., the kings of Ur had usurped all power and the Patesi were mere shadows.
from the reigns of Dungi, Bur-Sin II, and Gimil-Sin of the third dynasty of Ur. The texts published in this part are with one exception dated. It was thought best to publish the dated tablets first. An attempt has been made to group the
tablets here published are
The
tablets bearing the
same date
together, but as the tablets are of different sizes the exigencies of
a different order necessary. Other considerations sometimes led me to depart from this order, but broadly speaking the texts below are grouped according to date. The language in which these tablets are written is Sumerian, the tongue of the pre-Semitic
space frequently
inhabitants of Babylonia.
It
made
has been shown that the inhabitants of Shirpurla were Semites, 8
but that they learned their writing from the Sumerians, and while they probably spoke Semitic the force of custom was such that down to the conquest by the city of Babylon they continued
to
employ the Sumerian

itself
for writing.
4
From
the earliest times, however, the native Semitic

e. g., in
is
idiom made
10, pi. 9
apparent.
Similar Semitic idiom appears in our texts:

"
No.
18,
IV,
the use of ana as a preposition instead of the use of a post-position
due to Semitic
"
Also in No. 324, 1. 2., pi. 19 we have: AZAG ka-lum, the money in full, kalum being the Semitic kalu, Hebrew, 73 A comparison of No. 61, IV, 10 (pi. i) with OBI. No. 125, 5,
idiom.
affords us a
new Sumerian
ideograph,
BA-AN-LIL
being synonymous with BA-TU,
"
to bring
in."
The whole class of tablets, to which the Haverford Library Collection belongs, are This holds good of the texts here published. It is business and administrative character.
tomary
in
of a cus-
some quarters
to undervalue such tablets in comparison with religious texts,

I
which
usually are of a mythological or magical character.

ious tablets,
would by no means undervalue the religbut would nevertheless maintain that the value of economic texts is quite as great.
the temple records and business documents from Babylonia have been published in sufficiently large numbers and have been adequately studied, it will be possible to form a picture of the economic environment of an ancient people such as can be
When
made of no other people of antiquity

less
known
to us,
and
this picture will, I believe,

political institutions.
prove to be of no
value to the study of religion

there
than to the study of
Not the
least valuable aspect of these texts is their
contribution to historical knowledge.
They come from a time when
was no
fixed era,
and
records were dated from important events. below will afford a good example of the
A glance
way
in
at the dates given in the register of tablets
which these business documents portray the of which we often political conditions of the times, giving us a record of wars, raids and conquests have no other information than that which such tablets afford.
Sometimes these tablets

which records that
This
six slaves of
relate to private business.
This
is
the case with No. 340,
pi. 36,
one
instance occurs in No. 183,

is
pi. 18,
man worked two months in the field of another. Another where one man receives four earthen-ware jars from another.
where we have the payment to the temple of the
partially the case with No. 334, pi. 36,
principal of a loan, the interest remaining unpaid. Sometimes the business transacted was, perhaps, of a political nature.
We
are in doubt
whether the
lists of
amounts
of grain, such as No. 18, pi. 9, translated below,
were records of
taxes paid in kind, or the payment of rents from fields of the temple estates, which had been The latter alternative is probably nearer the truth, since care was leased to various individuals.
taken to withdraw the seed grain, which had probably been advanced by the temple or the tenant
1
Cf. Cf.
the writer's Semitic Origins, pp. 185, 186; also 186
n.
1.
Radau, Early Babylonian History, pp. 145-147.
at the beginning of the season.
ments
of tracts of land to
The Haverford Library Collection contains records of the assigndifferent individuals. One of these, No. 193, pi. 30, is translated below.
Various phases of the management of the arable fields of the temple and the collection of income from them are recorded in No. 61, pi. i No. 24, pi. 16; No. 102, pi. 21 No. 26, pi. 22 No. 91, pi.
;
31; No. 81,

35- pl- 45-
pi.
32,
33; No. 393,
pi.
37; No.
20, pi. 40;
No. 60,
pi. 41; No. 63, pi. 42;
and No.
and
Connected with the temple were a large number of

officers of
priests, scribes,
women,
slaves,
The names of some of these are well known, although we cannot yet determine the functions of each. One class, the name of which occurs frequently in our tablets, One of these ( pl. 3, No. 17, IV, 12) takes an ox away from a herd. is in Sumerian A-RU-A.
various kinds.
Another
No. 45) offers an expensive list of sacrifices. In pl. 23, No. 29, cols. II, III, and IV, are a number of A-RU-A, each standing at the head of a list of women to whom amounts of wool for clothing were assigned. Apparently, therefore, the A-RU-A had charge of the de(pl.
15,
5 voted ones or the sacred women.
Evidently, they were
men
of dignity
and
authority."
contain records of the quantities of grain or other rations, 7 Such or the quantities of wool for clothing, which were assigned to the staff of temple officials.
are Nos. 379, pl. 2; 257,
pl. 28;
pl. 6;
A large number of these tablets
396, pl. 8; 29, pl. 23, 24; 54, pl. 24; 66, pl. 25; 74, pl. 26; 248,
30, pl. 29;
246, pl. 30; 68, pl. 43;
and
272, pl. 49.
Special messengers were sometimes sent out, for whom special provision of food, drink and oil was made. Such seems to be the meaning of No. 217, pl. 43. The temple apparently also owned a large number of boats to ply on the canals and bring in the produce of the fields.
No. 188,
pl.
49 (translated below), gives the
number
of these
and
their capacity at a certain date.

officer
they are attributed by the tablet to a certain man, but he was probably the in charge of them, since the temple kept a record of them. Connected with the temple estates were also extensive pasture lands. Herds of
It is true that
cattle,
sheep, goats and asses were each year entrusted to different shepherds to graze on these lands. At certain times "round ups" of these cattle were made, and a record of the state of the herds taken. Such records are contained in Nos. 17, pl. 3 (translated below); 370, pl. 20; and 80,
pl- 34. 35-
The shepherds were held

' '
to strict account for losses occurring through their neglect,
but were not responsible for losses by accident or wild beasts unless due to carelessness. 8 At the " round ups the increase of the herd was noted, as well as the losses. Animals taken away
for
any purpose, such
as labor or sacrifice, were not counted as losses, but were included under a
separate entry.
Tablets of the sheep-shearing time recorded the wool received from the sheep
of the flock, classed according to age.
Such
is
No.
3, pl.
38, 39.
In the tablets of these classes published in the present work one or two lexical items of In pl. 3, No. 17, IV, 3, RUG-RUG is used after a singular. interest may be noted. Radau
(Early Babylonian History, p. 349
ff.)
and and
RUG-RUG
(p.
Cf.
plural.
is
Our
is
text
is
notes that, except in the text OBI. 126 RUG, is singular proof that the rule was subject to other exceptions. A
more
interesting case
PUHAD-NU-UR.
no,
and 178-182.
Radau
(op. cit. p. 357)
renders
it
"sucking lambs,
"
399) argues that this

Code
of
right because in the enumeration of wools the
PUHAD-NU-UR
Hammurabi,
127,
No. 14313, I. 10 saysof an A-RU-A, NE ERIM E-dingir-NINA, "who is a man of the temple of Nina." 'Cf. Johns, Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters, 1904, ch. XX, on "The functions and organization of the temple." Cf. Code of Hammurabi, 263-267.
CTBM. X.
produced none. Reisner (Tempel Urkunden, p. 6) renders it "ungeschornes(?)." In No. 3, pi. 38, of our texts we find evidence that both are mistaken, since weights of the wool of the
PUHAD-NU-UR
are twice given,

life
(cf.
II,
and
III, 7).
Other phases of temple

for sacrifice at the
are reflected in these texts.

is
gives the provision for three feast days, while No. 229, pi. 49,
For example, No. 297, pi. 36, the record of two oxen appointed
office of
One
accounts.
tablet,
temple at Bau on certain days. No. 113, pi. 18, records the establishment of an
pi. 50,
makers), while another, No. 144,
food-making (or foodrecords the appointment of two clerks in an office of

is
One
Patesi
of the
most
interesting of the tablets here published

in the city-section Girsu
No. 220,
pi. 36.
It records
the establishment of a park
by the son
of the Patesi
9
UR-LAMA
the
whom M.
Most
of
Thureau-Dangin restored to history a few years ago. The text is translated below. the tablets which mention places at all mention those near Shirpurla, though a
Babylonian
10
number
of other
cities
are mentioned also.
No. 288,
pi. 30, is,
however, a record
of rations deposited at Susa.
These texts contain one or two items of historical

pi.
interest.
For example,
in
31, VIII, 7,
8,
we read
in
GU
ID KIS-GIM
GUB
[E]
dingir-DUN-GI LUGAL-E:
Cf. Reisner, op. cit.
No. 91, "on the

No. 117, No. 81,
bank
of the canal Kishgim, he built [the palace] of Dungi, the king."
VII. 23-26.
pi. 33,
The context
which
this stands will be

I
found chronologically valuable.

It reads:
VIII, 13, presents a date which

' '
have not noticed elsewhere.

year
after
ship,
MA-SU-SA-SAHAR
Dagon was
of E.
built.
is
dingir-DA-GAN BA-RU, "the
the
MU-US-SA MA-SU-SA-SAHAR of
it is,
MA
the
indicates that the structure
was a
but
perhaps, a variant
If so, this
where we read
'
MU
year after that mentioned in Reisner's Urkunden, No. 122, II, 4, E-SU-SA-SAHAR (dingir)-DA-GAN BA-RU, 11 "the year the E-SU-SA-
SAHAR of Dagon was built",

IX,
1
i.
and would be identical with the year mentioned in Reisner ibid., Probably these two years are the same as those which Radau finds in the E. A. HoffNo. 101, but
if
man
collection,
is
his transliteration
is
correct (the text

is
is
not published), the
wording
in
still
different there.
If this identification
correct, the date belongs to the reign
of Dungi.
It
may, however, be that the "ship" was made at a

this
is
different time
from the temple,
which case
new
is
date.
Another new date

the ship
found in No.
37, pi. 5,
MU MA-TEMEN-MUH
reign this year belongs
:
BA-G1M:
I -do
Temen-muh was
consecrated."
To what
The year not know.
"
another interesting date is that of No. 61, pi. i dingir-SIS-KI KAR-ZI- [DA"| E-AN-NA BA-AN-LIL, "the year Nan-nar Kar-zi-da was brought into the house of Anu. " This is probably a variant of OBI. No. 125, 5 a date in the reign of Dungi.
Still
MU
Translations of specimens of the various classes of tablets represented here are appended.
R6vue semitique, 1897, p. 74 ff. ideogram with the ideogram for Susa in Scheil's Textes elamites semitiques, passim; in de Morgan and Scheil's Delegation en Perse, Vol. II., pi. 12, and p. 59, and Vol. VI, p. 6. "This date occurs also in CTBM. IX, No. 18437. '-This date is also found in CTBM. VII, Nos. 13165, 18391, and 18397; IX, Nos. 13657, 18367, 19715, and 21137, also X, No. 21429. In VII, No. 12927 the year after this last is mentioned.
Cf.
10
Cf. the
10
THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A PARK.

No. 220,
PI. 36.
Obv.
i. 2.
DC SAR GAN GIS-SAG C SAR GAN KI-GAL

BA-BI-ZI-MU NU-GIS-SAR SU-NIGIN DC SAR GAN GIS-SAG SU-NIGIN C SAR GAN KI-GAL
Obv.
i.
2.
600 shars of land planted with palm 100 shars of wooded land,
trees,
3.
3.
Babizimu being gardener,

a total of 600 shars of land planted with palms, a total of 100 shars of
as a park joined,
4.
5-
4.
5.
wooded
land,
6.
Rev.
i. 2.
GIS-SAR GID-DA LUGAL-SIG-GID
6.
Rev.
i. 2.
Lugalsiggid,
DUMU
3. 4.
5.
UR-dingir-LAMA PA-TE-SI GIR-SU-KI SA
son of
Ur-Lama
the Patesi,
3.
In Girsu,
GIR LUGAL-MA-GUR-US-SUKKAL
ITU EZIN-dingir-DUN-GI
4.
5.
Witness: Lugalmagurussukkal
Month Bui
the year the divine
6.
MU
Dingir-BUR-dingir-EN-ZU
LUGAL-E
6.
Bur-Sin the king, de-
UR-BIL-LUM-KI BA-HUL
stroyed Urbillum.
AN APPOINTMENT
No. 144,
TO CLERKSHIPS.
PI. 50.
Obv.
i. 2.
MA-DUB-BA DUP-PU-DA
UR-dingir-BA-U SIS
Obv.
Office
of accounts
3.
GAL-KAL-LA
4.
5.
Ur-Bau, brother of Galkalla,
4.
5.
dingir-LAMA-URU-NA
Lamauruna
and Gir-Ninshah
son of
SA GIR-dingir-NIN-SAH
Rev.
i.
DUMU DA-DA
NI-GAL
Rev.
1. 2.
Dada
2.
has appointed.
the year Gimil-Sin, king of Ur, the temple
3.
MU
dingir-GIMIL-dingir-EN-ZU
LUGAL
3.
4.
SIS-AB-KI-MA E E-dingir-GAL GIS-UH-KI
MU-RU
4.
the temple of the great god, Gish-uh
built.
RECEIPT FOR DATES.

No. 329,
PI. 47.
Obv.
i.
CLXXVII
KA-LUM GUR
Obv.
i.
177 Talents
of dates,
2.
KI-UR-AB-BA-TA
2.
from Urabba
for a possession
3.
MU-GAR-RA-KU
UR-dingir-BABBAR SU-BA-TI ITU SE-KIN-KUD
Rev.
3.
4.
4.
1. 2.
Ur-Shamash
has received.
Rev.
i. 2.
Month Adar,
the vear the throne of Bel was erected.
3.
MU GU-ZA
dingir-EN-LIL
BA-GIM
LIST OF SHIPS.
No. 188,
PI. 49.
Obv.
i. 2.
XXV MA LX GUR V MA L GUR

MA XL GUR X MA XXX GUR
X-LAL-I
Obv.
i.
25 Ships of 60 talents (burden),

5
ships of 50 talents,
i
3.
10 minus
ships of 40 talents,
10 ships of 30 talents
of
5.
Rev.
i. 2.
3.
USU-U GIR UR-GIS-ZIKUM DUMU GI-NI-MU ITU SE-KIN-KUD UD-BA V BA-NI MU HU-HU-NU-RI-KI BA-HUL
Ushu.
:
Rev
Witness
Urgishzikum, son of Ginimu
Month Adar, day sth the year Huhunuri was destroyed.
II
RECORD OF PROVISIONS FURNISHED.

No. 288.
PI. 30.
Obv.
i.
V KA GAS-GUB
Ill
Obv.
i.
Ka
of strong drink,
2.
KA GAR
2.
ka of food,
3.
IV GIN NI-GIS
3.
4. 5.
4 shekels of wood-oil
4.
5.
EN-SAM-MI-NI
Ill
II
Enshammini,
3
2
6.
KA GAS KA GAR
Rev.
Ka
of strong drink,
6.
i.
ka of food
oil
Rev.
i.
IV GIN NI
4 shekels of
2.
3.
A-KAM-A-GAL NINNI-ERIN-K1 GUB-NA

ITU SE-IL-LA MU HA-AR-SI-KI HU-MUR-TI-KI BA-
2.
Akamagal
at Susa presented.
3. 4.
5.
4.
5.
Month Nisan, the year Harshiand Humurti were destroyed.
HUL
RECEIPT FOR GRAIN.
No. 47, PL
17.
1
.
Obv.
i.
V SE GUR LUGAL
NI-DUB E-NE-LI-TA
MA-A-SI-GA
Obv.
Talents of grain royal quality,
2.
2.
has stored at Eneli
3.
3.
4.
5.
DUB
UR-dingir-GAL-GIR
Rev.
4.
5.
i. 2.
Maasiga on the account

son of Atu.
of Ur-Galgir
Rev.
i. 2.
UUMU A-TU GIR BA-ZI

ITU EZIN-NE-SU
Witness Bazi.
Month Tammuz
the year Bur-Sin became king.
Seal.
3.
MU
BUR-dingir-EN-ZU
LUGAL
Seal.
1.
UR-dingir-GAL-GIR
1.
2.
?.
UR-Galgir,
Scribe,
2.
DUP-SAR
3.
DUMU
A-TU
son of Atu.
ALLOTMENT OF LAND.
No. 193,
PI. 30.
Obv.
2.
XVII GAN DCLXXV SAR GAN-DAMAK XI GAN D SAR GAN SAHAR
Obv.
i.
17
1 1
2.
3.
5.
XIV GAN 525 SAR GAN GIG II GAN DCCCC SAR GAN-A-KAL DCCC SAR GAN ID-BAD
NI-DA-MU-NI-GID
3. 4.
5.
12
2
Gan 675 Gan 500 Gan 525
shars of good land, shars of land planted with sahar, shars of land planted with gig,
Gan, 900 shars of flooded (?) land, 800 shars of land with a canal wall
(to)
6.
7.
6.
7.
Nidamunigid
Rev.
i. 2.
MU EN-NUN-KI XXXV GAN L SAR GAN-DAMAK

XI GAN D SAR GAN SAHAR XI GAN CCL SAR GAN GIS GESTIN XIV GAN D SAR GAN SAHAR GID
the 35
ii ii
man
of Eridu.
Rev.
i. 2.
3.
4.
3.
4.
14
Gan 50 shars of good land, Gan 500 shars of land planted with Gan 250 shars of land planted with Gan 500 shars of land planted with
adjoining
(?)
sahar,
vines,
sahar
6.
7.
GAN DCCCC SAR GAN-DAMAK GID DCCCXXV SAR GAN ID-BAD

II
5.
Gan 900
shars of good land adjoining
(?),
6.
7.
825 shars of land with a canal wall

of Gal-Nintinigid.
GAL-clingir-NIN-TI-NI-GID
8.
MU
HA-AR-SI-KI
8.
the year of Harshi (and)
....
12
ESTABLISHMENT OF A FOOD-OFFICE.
No. 113,
PI. 18.
Obv.
i. 2.
MA-DUB-BA GAR-RA-AG
UR-dingir-A(?)
Obv.
i.
An
of
office
2.
food-making
3. 4.
5.
3-
Ur-A(?)
son of Nabashag
DUMU NA-BA-SAG
SA GAL-BI-MU GU ID NINA-KI GUB
NI-SU-U MU KI-MAS-KI BA-HUL
Rev.
4.
5.
i.
and Galbimu on the bank

of the canal of
Rev.
i.
Nina
set
2.
2.
3.
3.
(and) made firm. The year Kimash was
destroyed.
RECEIPT FOR EARTHEN JARS.

No. 183,
PI. 18.
Obv.
i.
IV
PES-HUM
Obv.
i.
2.
4 earthen jars
KI KIN-SA-MU-TA SU-SAR-MAL-IM-SE-RA-KU
3.
from Kinshamu, for Shusharmalimshera
SU-AB-BA
Rev.
i.
4.
Shuabba
son of Bazi
has received.
DUMU
BA-ZI
Rev.
i. 2.
2.
SU-BA-TI
3.
4.
ITU EZIN-dingir-BA-U MU KI-MAS-KI
3.
Month
Kisleu,
4.
year of Kimash.
IN TOLL.
RECORD OF GRAIN TAKEN

No. 185,
PI. 27.
Obv.
i.
2.
3.
4
5.
CXXIII SE GUR LUGAL SE AB-BU DUP-SAR-DA KARU ERIM-KI UR-RIN-E-NIGIN
Obv.
i. 2.
123 Talents of grain royal quality

grain (which) with Abbu, the scribe
at the granary of
3.
Erim
4.
5.
Ur-rinenigin
gained.
RUG-RUG-DAM
MU-US-SA KI-MAS-KI BA-HUL MU-USSA-BI
Rev.
Rev.
i.
i.
Two
years after
Kimash was
destroyed.
MEMORIAL OF BUILDING A WALL.

No. 349,
PI. 14.
Obv.
i. 2.
3.
DUP BAD(?) MU-BAD KALAM A-UR-A
Rev.
i. 2.
Record
of the wall(?)
(which) placed
3.
the people sent
KI KI-NU-NIR-KI NINA-KI Rev. i. SA TIG-AB-BA-KI 2. NI-GAL v MU UR-BIL-LUM-KI BA-HUL

4
.
4.
Rev.
from Kinunir, Nina and Tigabba.

(They) set
(it)
2.
up.
3.
The year Urbillum was destroyed.
RECORD OF A SACRIFICE.
No. 45, PL
15.
i. 2.
Obv.
i. 2.
IV UZ
Obv.
4 Goats,
15 she goats,
3 ewes,
5
i
V SU-KAR
HI'U'
3-
3.
4.
5.
V LU URU
i
4.
5.
rams,
PUHAD URU
he-lamb,
Rev.
i. 2.
XXXV BIR A-RU-A Dingir-NIN-E-NE-LI-KI

UM-A-GI-GI
Rev.
i.
35 kids,
2.
the
ARUA
of the goddess
NIN-E-NELI
3.
3. 4.
5.
has sacrificed.
5.
ITU SE-KIN-KUD MU-US-SA KI-MAS-KI BA-HUL

Seal.
Month, Adar,
the year
Seal.
Kimash was destroyed.
IP-TIR-KALAM DUMU UR-E-AN-NA.
Iptirkalam son of Ur-Eanna.
RECORD OP HIRED SLAVES.

No. 340,
PI. 36.
Obv.
i. 2.
VI
KAL
Obv.
6 Slaves
of
URU-TA-NU-TAM-MI
ITU GUD-DU-NE-SAR-SAR-TA ITU EZIN-dingir-NE-SU-KU ITU II KAM BAL-MA A-SA BA-RU-GAL
Urutunutammi
3.
from the month Sivan

to the
2
4.
month Tammuz
Rev.
i.
Rev.
months,
2.
2.
3.
4.
DUMU UR-SAG-GA MU Dingir-BUR-dingir-EN-ZU LUGAL
3.
field of Barugal son of Urshagga.
dug the
4.
The year the divine Bur-Sin became
king.
RECEIPT FOR MONEY.

No. 324,
PI. 19.
Obv.
i. 2.
XVII MISLA GIN LAL
II
SE AZAG-UD
Rev.
i. 2.
17
and
]/*
shekels of silver, less
she,
AZAG KA-LUM
KI KALAM-IL-TA
LUGAL-dingir-NIN-GIR-SU SU-BA-TI
Rev.
money
in full,
3.
3.
i. 2.
from Kalamil
Lugal-Ningirsu has received.
Rev.
i.
2.
3.
MU
KI-MAS-KI BA-HUL
3.
The year Kimash was destroyed.
PAYMENT OF
No. 334,
A LOAN.
PI. 36.
Obv.
i.
2.
V GIN AZAG-UD LAL-NI RUG-GA

KI UR-dingir-GAL-GIR-GAL-NIN-AN-TA E-GAL-LA BA-AN-LIL
Obv.
Shekels of silver
interest
2.
minus the
3.
3. 4.
from Ur-Galgirgalninan
Egalla has brought
in.
4.
Rev.
i. 2.
GIR UR-dingir-LAMA ITU SU-KUL

MU-US-SA Dingir-BUR-dingir-EN-ZU LUGAL.
Rev.
i.
Witness: Ur-Lama.
2.
Month Ab
the year the divine Bur-Sin became king.
3.
3.
A
I.
"
ROUND-UP" OF CATTLE.
No.
17, PI. 3.
I. i. 2.
i. 2.
3.
4.
5.
XXXVI LID AL X LID III IV GUD III X LID II

IV LID
VI.
II
36 Full-grown cows,
10 cows 3 (years old),
4 bullocks 3 (years old),
3.
4.
5.
10 cows
4 cows
2
(years old),
SAG LID AL KU
(years old) in exchange for full-grown
cows.
6.
GUD
II
6.
6 bullocks 2 (years old).
7.
II
GUD
II
I
RUG-RUG
I
7.
bullocks
i
(years old) increase,
8. 9.
10.
X LAL XI GUD I Ill GUD LID

LAL-NI
I
LID
8. 9.
10 minus
cows
i
(year old),
ii bullocks
3
(year old),
10.
1 1
.
bullocks (for) cows.
11. 12.
GUB-BA-A-AN
are present.
GUD
III
12. 13.
There
i
is
missing
2
bullock
3 (years old).
13. I
14. 15.
16.
II.
i. 2.
GUD
II
bullock
(years old).
LAL-NI-A-AN SU-NIGIN XCV LID HI-A LID GUB-BA-A-AN. SU-NIGIN II LID HI-A
14. 15.
1
They
are missing.
Total 95 cattle
cattle are present.
6.
i. 2.
II.
Total
cattle
LAL-NI-A-AN
UR-SI-IL-LA
are missing
of Ur-sheilla's.
3.
3.
5.
XXXIV LID AL IV LID III SAG LID AL

VII LID
I
4.
34 Full-grown cows,
4
KU
5.
cows
(years
old)
in
exchange
for full-
6.
7.
II
6.
7
i
grown cows, cows 2 (years old),
LID
II
SAG
II
(LID)
AL KU
7.
cow
(years old) in exchange for a full-
grown cow,
8. 9.
XII
GUD
8.
12 bullocks
(years old),
10. 11.
X LID I VII GUD I I GUD RUG-RUG

GUD-GIS GUB-BA-A-AN LAL-NI I LID AL
9.
10 cows
7
i
(year old),
i
10.
bullocks
(year old),
11.
bullock increase,
12. Ill 13. 14.
12. 3 full-grown 13. are present.
oxen,
14.
15.
1 6.
There
i
is
missing
full-grown cow,
15. I
1 6.
AMAR
13
calf.
17.
III.
i.
2.
3.
LAL-NI-A-AN SU-NIGIN LXXX LAL LID GUB-BA-A-AN SU-NIGIN II LID HI-A LAL-NI-A-AN
They
are missing.
i
LID HI-A
III.
17.
i
Total 80 minus
cattle
cattle are present.
2.
Total, 2 cattle are missing

of Dingir-sukkal's.
3.
DINGIR-SUKKAL
SU-NIGIN LXX LID AL SU-NIGIN X LID III SU-NIGIN IV LID III SAG LID AL
4.
5.
5.
Total 70 full-grown cows, Total 10 cows

Total, 4 cows
3 (years old), 3
6.
7.
6.
KU
7.
(years old) in exchange for
full-grown cows,
8. 9.
10.
SU-NIGIN IV GUD SU-NIGIN XX LAL II LID III SU-NIGIN V LID II SAG LID AL
III
8. total 4
9.
bullocks 3 (years old),
total, 20
minus
2
cows
(years old),
KU
10. total, 5
cows
(years old) in exchange for
full-grown cows,
11.
12.
IV.
i.
2.
3.
4.
5. 6.
SU-NIGIN XX LAL II GUD SU-NIGIN II GUD II RUG-RUG SU-NIGIN XX LAL I LID I SU-NIGIN XX LAL II GUD I SU-NIGIN I GUD I RUG-RUG SU-NIGIN III GUD GIS SU-NIGIN III GUD LID LID GUB-BA-A-AN
II
will notice that the
11. total, 12. total,
20 minus
2
bullocks
2
(years old),
bullocks
(years old) increase,

i
IV.
i. 2.
total, 20
minus
minus
bullock
cow
(year old),
i
total, 20 total,
i
2
i
bullocks
(year old),
3.
(year old) increase,
4.
5.
total 3 full-grown oxen,

total 3 bulls (for) cows,
6.
(these) cattle are present.
The reader
Babylonian totals are not always accurate.
7.
8. 9.
10.
11. 12.
SU-NIGIN I LID AL SU-NIGIN I GUD III SU-NIGIN I GUD II SU-NIGIN I AMAR LAL-NI-A-AN (GUD ZIG-GA-NE-NE A-RU-A-TA KI-BABA-A-GAR).
7.
Total
total total
total,
i
i
full-grown cow,
8.
9.
bullock 3 (years old), bullock

i
(years old),
10.
1 1
.
calf,
are missing.
12.
(A bullock they have taken away for the
Arua, Kibabaagar).
13.
13. 14.
LID GUB-BA NIN-KAL-LA

SIG GIR-SU-KI
UR-dingir-LAMA PA-TE-SI
The
cattle presented
14.
Ninkalla
15.
1
15. in Girsu.
1
6.
6.
UR-Lama
(being) Pates i.
17.
18.
17.
1 8.
MU-US-SA AN-SA-AN-KI BA-HUL
The year after Anshan was destroyed.
RECORD OF QUANTITIES OF GRAIN COLLECTED AS RENT OR TAXES.

No.
I. i. 2.
18, PI. 9.
I. i. 2.
GUR
SE LUGAL
The
are
talents of grain royal quality

filled
SI-NI-IB
out.
3.
SA-BI-TA
3.
Of
1
it
4.
5.
CLXXX DUB GAL-BI-MU

MU-GUB
UR-IM-NUN CXXVI XXXVIII PARAB KA GUR SE-KUL-TA GUR-RA CLXXX SE-AMAR BA-BAT
SU-NIGIN VII XLVIII PARAB
SA-BI-TA
4.
5.
80,
on the account of Gal-bi-mu,
presented
6.
7.
6.
7.
Urimnun.
126 Talents 38 and
$
ka
8. 9.
8. 9.
are withdrawn for seed grain.
The 180
(talents) of grain are
completed.
ka:
10. 11. 12. 13.

14. 15.
KA GUR
10.
A
of
5
i
total of 7 talents, 48
it
and
n.
12.
V DUB-BA-NI
I
(talents)
are in storage;
XXV KA GUR
DUMU
NA-BA-
13. 14.
15.
talent 25 ka
DUB-BI II A-AN DUB' UR-dingir-NINA
(on) his second account,

(viz:
)
the account of Ur-Nina son of Naba-
16.
SAG MU-GUB
LAL-NI
I
shag
1
6.
is
present.
is
17.
1
XXIII
PARAB KA GUR
17.
1
There
lacking
talent,
23
and
ka.
8.
UR-dingir-BA-U
8.
Ur-Bau:
66 talents, 30 ka.
19. 20. 21. 22.

II.
i.
LXVI
XXX KA GUR
XXX KA GUR
UR-dingir-NINA
19.
LAL-NI SE-KUL
SA-BI-TA
20. 21.
22.
There
is
lacking seed grain
from him.
LXVI
The 66
talents, 30 ka,
DUB
DUMU NA-BA-SAG
II.
i.
on the account of Ur-Nina son

are present
in the city.
of
Nabashag,
2.
MU-GUB
URU-KI
E-dingir-NIN-DAR-A
2.
3.
3.
4.
5.
4.
5.
(At) the temple of
Nindara
6.
7.
XCIX GUR SE-KUR-RA UD-BA-BAT

SA-BI-TA
99 talents,
6.
7.
the grain required
is
completed.
Of
it
8.
9.
XCIX GUR
8. 9.
99 Talents
10. 11.
DUB GAL-BI-MU MU-GUB

GAL-NA-AS-E-LA-KI
on the account of Galbimu

Galnashelaki son of Baa,
10. are present.
DUMU
BA-A
11.
i6
12. 13.
14.
CXXXVI GUR
LAL-NI SE-KUR
12.
136 talents.
13.
Seed-grain
is
lacking.
LXXIV XXVI SUSSAN KA GUR

SE-KUR-TA GUR-RA
SU-NIGIN CCLXX XXVI SUSSAN KA
14. 74 Talents 26 and $ ka

15.
is
15.
16.
withdrawn
for seed-grain.
16.
total of 270 talents 26
and
ka:
GUR
17.
1
SA-BI-TA
17. of it
1
8.
19.
III.
i. 2.
CLXXXV XL KA GUR DUB UR-dingir-NINA DUMU NA-BA-SAG LXXVI MISLU V KA GUR DUB MA-LI DUMU KI-RAM-MU
MU-GUB.
LAL-NI VIII CCLXXXVI SUSSAN
8.
19.
III.
i. 2.
185 talents 40 ka on the account of Ur-Nina son of Nabashag; talents 5 ka 76 and
on the account of Mali son of

are present.
Kirammu
3.
3.
KA
4.
There are wanting 8 talents 286 and J ka.
GUR
5.
6.
7.
UR-DUMU CXXXIV XL KA GUR

LAL-NI SE-KUL XXXI XLII MISLU
5.
Urdumu,
134 talents 40 ka.
6.
7.
Seed-grain
is
lacking.
8.
9.
KA GUR
8. 9.
31 Talents 42
is
and
ka
SE-KUR-TA GUR
withdrawn
for seed-grain.
10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15.

1 6.
LX XXX KA SE-AMAR BA-BAT

CXXII KI-LUGAL-URU-DA SU-NIGIN CVIII LI1 MISLA KA
SA-BI-TA
CVIII LII
10. 11.
60 Talents 30 ka of grain are completed.

122,
from Lugaluruda.
1
GUR
12.
A total of
it
08 talents 52 and J ka:
13. of
14. 15.
1
DUB
MISLA KA GUR UR-dingir NINA DUMU NA-BA-SAG
108 talents, 52 and
ka
on the account of Ur-Nina son of Nabashag

presented
MU-GUB
UR-SAG-GA
E-dingir-DUMU-ZI
VIII
6.
17.
1
17.
1
Urshagga.
8.
8.
Temple
of
Tammuz
is
19. 20.
GUR
IV.
19. 20.
i. 2.
8 talents,
SE-KUR-RA UD-BA-AT
the grain required,
completed.
IV.
i.
2.
3.
4.
5.
DUP LXV .... CCXLI DUB NU-RU DUB GAL-BI-MU MU-GUB

KI
UR-dingir-BA-U
From Dub
65
....
Nuru
of
3. 4.
5.
241 (talents)
stored
up
on the account
Presented
(it)
Galbimu.
6.
7.
DUMU
PA-AL-E
6.
7. 8. 9.
Ur-Bau son
of
of Pa-al-e.
CCXLI V SE GAR-GAL-LA
SA-BI-TA
244 (Talents) of grain as a possession:

it
8. 9.
10.
CCXLIV DUB NU-TUG ANA GU GAL-BI-MU BA-A-GAR
244 (talents) on the account of Nutug.
10.
placed at the
call of
Galbimu,
n.
12.
MU-GUB
UR-dingir-LAMA DUMU HU-MU CXCII LXVII KA GUR-TA
11. are present. 12. 13.
Ur-Lama son
of
Humu
13.
14.
from 192 talents 67 ka

has
filled (it).
CCXXVI
XXX KA GUR
SU-KA
14. to 216 talents 30 ka 15.
15. 16. 17. 18. 19.
IM-SI-BA-TA
SU-NIGIN CCCCXIX LXXXVII

SA-BI-TA
KA GUR
16.
total of 419 talents 87 ka:
17. of it
1 8.
V GUR
GAL-BI-MU SU-BA-TI CCXLV XXVII KA GUR
5 talents
19.
Galbimu has
received.
20.
20.
245 Talents 27 ka
21. 22.
23. 24. 25. 26.
UR-dingir-NINA SU-BA-TI
DAMU MA-BA-&AG
KA GUR
21.
22.
Ur-Nina son of Nabashag

has received.
SU-NIGIN CCCIX XXVII
23.
24.
A
is
ka
MU-GUB
LAL-NI CLXIX MISLA
present.
GUR
25.
169 and $ talents are lacking.
GAR-TA
26. Garta,
27.
28.
LXXVI
VIII
MISLA KA GUR
V.
27. 28.
i
76 talents 8 and $ ka.
LAL-NI SE-KUL
Seed-grain
is
lacking.
. . . .
V.
I.
KA GUR SE-KUR-TA GUR-RA

SU-NIGIN CCLXII MISLA
SA-BI-TA
I
Talents
ka are with-
drawn
2.
for seed grain.

i
KA GUR
2.
A
of
total of 262 talents

it
i
ka:
345-
3.
I
LAL-NI CCLXII MISLA
KA GUR
4.
5.
262 talents
ka are lacking.
6.
7-
UR-dingir-BA-U DUMU KALAM-IL CCLV XXXIV KA GUR
Ur-Bau son
of Kalamil,
6.
7.
8. 9-
LAL-NI SE-KUL LXVII MISLA II MISLA
KA GUR
8. 9.
255 talents 34 ka. Seed grain is lacking. 67 and $ Talents 2 and $ ka

is
SE-KUR-TA GUR-RA
SU-NIGIN XXIII LVI MISLA
VIII
withdrawn
for seed-grain.
10.
KA GUR
10.
and J ka:
n. SA-BI-TA
12.
11. of it
BA-RU SU-BA-TI
12. 8 (talents) 13. 14.

15.
8,
Baru has received;
1314IS16.
DUB GAL-BI-MU SU-NIGIN XV GUR

VIII
on account of Galbimu.
total of 15 talents
A
is
MU-GUB
LAL-NI VI LVI MISLA
present.
KA GUR
6.
6 Talents 56
and % ka are lacking.
1718. 19.
UR-UD-E-GAR
E-dingir-MAL-LAM-HI
17.
1 8.
Urudegar
of the
temple of Malamhi:
talents.
20.
21.
22. 2324.
2526. 27.
cxcvi MISLA LAL"-NI SE-KUR CXCI XX KA GUR SE-KUR-TA GUR-RA CXXII SE-AMAR BA-BAT
S"U-NIGIN
19.
196 and $
Seed-grain
is
lacking.
20.
191 Talents 20 ka
21. are 22. 23.
withdrawn
(talents)
for seed grain.
122
of grain are completed.
CCX XX KA GUR
GAL-BI-MU SU-BA-TI
A
14
total of 210 talents 20 ka:
SA-BI-TA
24. of it 25.
XIV
XX KA
(talents)
is
20 ka Galbimu has received,
MU-GUB
LAL-NI CXCVI MISLA UR-E-SE
. . .
26. it
present.
talents are lacking.
GUR
27. 196 and

28. 29.
28.
29.
Ureshe,
196 talents
2
VI.
i. 2.
CXCVI II SUSSAN KA GUR SE-KUR-TA

.
and
. .
ka.
(are
.
VI.
i. 2.
For seed-grain.
Talents 27 ka
withdrawn)
. .
3-
CXXI XXX .... V XXVII KA GUR

LAL-NI SE-KUR. SU-NIGIN XXIII LIX SANABI
SA-BI-TA XVIII XXXII SANABI GAL-BI-MU SU-BA-TI
121 (talents) 30 ka.

5
3.
45-
4.
are lacking as seed -grain.
KA GUR
5.
A total of 23 talents
of
1
59 and
ka:
6.
7-
6.
it
KA GUR
7.
8 talents 32
and
<j
ka
8.
9-
8.
9.
Galbimu has
it is
received,
MU-GUB
present.
LAL-NI V XXVII n. GAR-SAM AS

10.
KA GUR
10.
1 1
.
Talents 27 ka are lacking.
Garshamash,
temple of Ama,
12.
E-dingir-AMA
12.
i8
13.
14.
15.
1
CCX KA SE-BA GESTIM-MA CIV CCLXXX KA SU-KA SU-NIGIN CVII CCXL MISLA GUR
SA-BI-TA
13.
14.
210 ka of grain-wine,
104 (talents) 280 ka of flour.
15.
1
A
of
total of 107 talents

it
and 240$
(ka):
6.
6.
17. 18.
LXXXIV XXX KA GUR II SUSSAN(?) GUR(?) LUGAL SU-NIGIN

BU-BA
17.
1
84 talents 30 ka
2
8.
and
J talents of royal quality, the total of
Buba,
IQ. 20.
19.
MU-GUB
are present.
23 Talents 180
20.
21.
22. 23.
24.
CLXXX MISLA GUR GIR UR-SAG-GA-MU DUMU MA-LI GAR-SAM-AS DUMU KI -LUGAL
LAL-NI XXIII
and
(ka) are lacking.
21. 22. 23.
Urshaggamu son of Mali, Garshamash son of Kilugal (and)

Gir:
25.
26.
GAR-RA-AG-BI GIR GAL-HAL-NI SA KI-NU-NIR-KI NINA-KI MU SI-MU-UR-RU-UM-KI LU-LU-BU-KI A-DU [Xj-LAL-I KAM BA-HUL
the Garraagbi Gir (food-maker's overseer?),

Galhalni.
24.
25. 26.
In Kinunir of Nina.
The year Simurru and Lulubu were destroyed

for the Qth time.
REGISTER OF TABLETS.
Tablet No. in Haverford College Collection.
3-
Plate.
Description of Tablet.
Date.
in.
in.
38, 39.
Account
long,
tablet,
5
one side broken away, 6 and $ and $ in. wide at widest, i and }
It records a
The
year
Bur-Sin
de-
stroyed Urbillum.
thick at centre.*
"round up"
in.
of
sheep and goats.

4.
Tablet,
in.
and
f in. long,
and $
wide and
thick.
Receipt for grain.
The year after Urbillum was destroyed, reign

of Dungi.
11.
21.
Tablet, similar to No. 12, probably case tablet.

2 in.
long,
and f
in.
wide,
i in.
thick.
Record
Date the year Kimash was destroyed, reign

of Dungi.
of storing grain.
12.
44.
Case tablet; when shaken, the rattle of the inner

tablet can be heard.
1}
in.
long, if in. wide,
The year the ship "Antelope of the Deep" was

consecrated,
Gimil-Sin.
reign
of
in.
thick.
Receipt for grain.
21.
Case tablet, one corner of case broken away,
and f
List
16.
7.
in.
long,
of
kinds
of
12.
and f wood.
in.
wide, J
in.
thick.
The year after Kimash was destroyed reign

,
of Dungi.
Similar to No.
Probably a case tablet, of

2
mixed
and f
clay, reddish and white.

in.
in.
long,
The year Sumurru and Lulubu were destroyed

time,
for
wide,
in. thick.
Record of the exsesame (?).
the
9th
3.
change Account tablet, 4 and J i in. thick. Record
of seed
wheat
for
reign of Dungi.
in. long, 3
and $
in.
wide,
of a
"round up."
and $
in.
The year after Anshan was destroyed, reign

of Dungi.
18.
9.
Account
i
tablet, 5
and \
in.
long, 3
wide,
in.
thick at centre.
List of weights of grain.
The year Sumurru and Lulubu were destroyed

for
the
gth
time,
reign of Dungi.
20.
40.
Account
|
in.
tablet, 4
and
and
\ in.
long,
and $ and
in.
wide,
The
year
Bur-Sin
de-
thick.
List of quantities of grain.

\ in. long, 4
J in. wide,
stroyed Urbillum.
24.
16.
Account
i
tablet, 5
in.
The year Kimash was

destroyed,
reign
of
and |
thick at centre.
List of quantities of
26.
22.
wood, Account
i
reeds,
and
grain.
in.
Dungi.
long, 4
tablet, 5
and ^
and $
in.
wide,
in. thick.
List of quantities of land assigned
The year after Kimash was destroyed, reign

of Dungi.
to different men.
29. 23,
24.
Account
tablet, 5 in. long, 5
and
wide,
in. thick.
Two
years after
Kimash
reign
List of quantities of wool for clothing assigned to different temple officers.

30.
29.
was destroyed,
of Dungi.
Account
i
tablet, 4
and f
in.
long, 3
and f
in.
wide,
Two
years after
Kimash
reign
in. thick.
List of quantities of grain.
was destroyed,
of Dungi.
The measurements
for thickness all represent the thickest part of the tablet.

(19).
20
Tablet No.
35-
in
Haver-
ford College Collection.
Plate.
Date
45
Account
i
tablet, 5
and
in.
long, 3
and f
in.
wide,
in. thick.
List of food, drink
and
oil for dif-
The year the throne of Sin was erected and

the year (the king) was
invested high priest of
ferent
months
the great abode of Ishtar

36.
14.
reign of Bur-Sin.
Tablet,
thick.
and f
in.
long,
and f
in.
wide,
in.
The year Kimash was

destroyed,
Receipt for grain.
reign
of
Dungi.
37-
Circular tablet,
and f
in. in
diameter,
i in.
thick
at centre,
goats.
in.
at edge.
List of sheep
and
The year the ship TEMEN-MUH was consecrated,
reign
un-
known.
38.
ii.
Fine case tablet,

i
and f
in.
long,
and f
in.
wide,
of a
The year Urbillum was

destroyed,
in. thick.
it.
Seal has
made a palimpsest
in. long, i
reign
of
part of
40.
ii.
Receipt for grain.

i
Dungi.
Probably case tablet,

wide, f
in. thick.
and f
and \
in.

destroyed,
Receipt for grain.

Inscribed on one side only.
reign
of
Dungi.
41.
Probably case tablet.

3
and
J in. long, 2
and J
in.
wide,
and J
in.

of Dungi.
thick.
42.
Receipt for grain.

i
Similar to No. 12, probably a case tablet,

in
and
long, 2
and ^
in.
wide, f
in. thick.
Receipt
The year after the wall was built, reign of

Gimil-Sin.
for grain.
43-
Similar to No. 12; probably a case tablet,
and
The year Kimash was

destroyed,
in.
long,
and f
in.
wide,
i in.
thick.
Record
reign
of
of preserving seed-grain.
44.
Dungi.
2
Similar to No. 12; probably a case tablet.
and
in. long, 2 in.
wide,
of
and
in. thick.
Record
different
The year after Urbillum was destroyed, reigu

of Dungi.
of
quantities
grain
received
at
store-houses.
45-
Unbroken case
heard,
thick.
tablet, similar to No. 12.
When
in.
shaken, the rattle of the inner tablet can be

i

of Dungi.
and J
in.
long,
and f
in.
wide, f
Record of sheep and goats offered

probably a case tablet,
in.
i
in
sacrifice.
47-
Similar to No. 45
and
The year
after Urbillum
in.
long,
and f
wide, and f
in.
thick.
was destroyed,
of Dungi.
reign
12.
Record of storing grain. Account tablet, 4 and f in. long,

thick.
2 in.
wide,
in.
List of weights of grain.

of
Dungi.
of
54-
24.
Merely
fragments
of
tablet.
Measurements,
The year Kimash was

destroyed,
impossible.
List of quantities of provisions for
reign
temple
officials.
Dungi.
long,
for
i
59-
39-
Tablet
and f
in.
and ^
in.
wide, f
in.
The
year
Bur-Sin
Urbillum.
de-
thick.
Receipt
grain.
stroyed
21
Plate.
Date.
60.
41.
Account
J
in.
tablet, 3
and f
in.
long, 2
and
J in. wide,
thick.
Account of quantities of
grain.

of Dungi.
61.
i.
Account
long, 2
tablet, rapidly crumbling,
and J
in.
wide, f
in. thick.
and f in. Account of
The year Nannar
KAR-
ZI-DA
of
into the house
quantities of grain and food.
Anu was
brought.
of
Probably
Dungi.
63-
reign
42.
64.
39.
and $ in. long, 2 and } in. wide, in. thick. Account of quantities of wool. J Similar to Nos. 12 and 45; probably case tablet.
Account
tablet, 4
i
The
year
Bur-Sin
de-
stroyed Urbillum.
Accession year of BurSin.
and 4
in. long, i
and
in.
wide, f
in. thick.
Receipt for grain.

6523.
Similar to Nos. 12 and 45; probably a case tablet.

i
The year
Dungi.
Kimash was
reign
of
and f
in. long,
and
in.
wide, f
in. thick.
destroyed,
66.
25.
Record of grain stored up. Sun-dried account tablet, 4 and

|
in.
in.
long, 2
and
Two
years after
Kimash
reign
wide,
in.
thick.
List of rations(?) for
was destroyed,
of Dungi.
different individuals.
68.
43.
Account
tablet, 5
and
in. long, 2
and
f in. wide,
The
year
Bur-Sin
de-
I in. thick.
uals of wool for clothing

7426.
Assignment to different individand of food.
stroyed Urbillum.
Account
thick.
tablet, 4 in. long, 2
and f
in.
wide,
in.
Two
years after
Kimash
reign
List of weights, probably of foodstuffs,
was destroyed,
of Dungi.
assigned to different individuals.

75-
36.
Case tablet, case broken, few fragments of it remain, i and | in. long, i and J in. wide, $ in.
thick.
Receipt for wool.

off.
76.
17.
Case tablet, case broken

long,
i
Case
and
in.
wide, f
in. thick.
and J in. Record of
The year
Dungi.
Kimash was
reign
of
destroyed,
storing grain.
80.
34, 35.
Account
i
tablet, 7
in.
and
and f in. long, 7 and f in. wide, Record of a great "round thick. and
asses.
The year the divine Dungi,
the
mighty hero,
up"
of cattle
king of Ur, king of the four quarters, devas-
81.
32, 33.
Account
in.
tablet,
one edge broken away.

7
and f
Ac-
and destroyed Kimash and Humurti. The year after the ship
tated
long at one edge,
and
J at the other, 5 in.

in. thick.
SU-SA-SAHAR
gon was
of
built,
of
Da-
wide at widest part, i and 9-16 count of quantities of grain.

84-
reign
48.
Account
J
tablet, 4
and
in.
long, 2 in. wide,
and
Dungi (?). The year Huhunuri was

destroyed,
in. thick.
List of weights of wool for clothing.
reign
of
Bur-Sin.
90. 44.
Account
|
in.
and f in. long, tablet, Measurements of thick.

2
and
} in.
wide,
No
date, but as Bur-Sin
fields
assigned to
occurs as a divine ele-
different
men.
ment
it
in
was
a proper name, written after
his
accession.
22
91. 31.
pl
Date.
all
i
Account tablet
in 8 cols.
in.
Nearly
of
cols,
Several dates in the reign

of
broken away. 6 thick. Account
long, 4 in. wide,
and
J in.
of
quantities
of
grain fur-
Dungi are mentioned. The latest

is
nished while the palace of Dungi was being built.
date
the
year the
throne of
erected,
Bel(?)
was
of
which brings
the
reign
us
into
Bur-Sin.
too.
Sun-dried tablet,
wide, |
in.
and
in.
long,
and
in.
Two
years after
Kimash
reign
thick.
One edge broken and one end
was
destroyed,
broken away.
21.
List of weights of grain from
of Dungi.
different farmers.
102.
Sun-dried tablet, bottom broken away.

J in. long,
i
and
Acdif-
Two
years after
Kimash
reign
and
f in. wide, J in. thick.
was destroyed,
of Dungi.
count of quantities of grain produced by

ferent farmers.
18.
"3-
Sun-dried tablet,
| in. thick.
food-store.
and f in. long, i and \ in. wide, Record of the establishment of a

i
The year Kimash was

destroyed,
reign
of
Dungi.
in.
141
18.
Tablet,
thick.
and.
long,
and \
in.
wide, f
in.
Record of the storing
of grain.

for the gth time,
reign
of Dungi.
14318.
Tablet,
thick.
and
in.
long,
and \
in.
wide, f
in.
Record of storing up
grain.

for the gth time, of Dungi.
reign
144
SO-
Tablet,
thick.
and J in. long, i and in. wide, f in. Record of the appointment of two sec-
The year Gimil-Sin, king

of Ur, built the
temple
Gi-
retaries.
of
the great god
shuh.
149.
Tablet,
and ^
in.
long,
and 3-16
in.
wide, %
The year Dur-Mada was

built,
in. thick.
Receipt for grain.

fine
reign of Dungi.
IS
Tablet of coarse clay, containing
gravel;
and ^
in.
long,
and ^
in.
wide, f
in. thick.
Re-

for the 9th time of Dungi.
,
ceipt for grain.
reign
158-
10.
Sun-dried tablet,
f
in. thick.
and f in. long, i and i in. wide, Record of quantities of grain from
i
The year after Simurru and Lulubu were destroyed

time,
for
different individuals.
the
9th
reign of Dungi.
171.
IO.
Tablet,
thick.
and \
in.
long,
and
i in. wide, | in.
Receipt for grain.

for the 9th time,
reign
of Dungi.
172.
II.
Tablet,
thick.
and $
in.
long,
and
in.
wide,
in.
Receipt for grain.

for the 9th time,
reign
of Dungi.
Plate.
6.
Date.
i
Tablet of reddish clay,

in.
and
f in. long,
and
The year Shashru was

destroyed,
wide, f
in.
thick.
Receipt for grain.
reign
of
Dungi.
181.
12.
Tablet,
thick.
and J
in.
long,
and
f in. wide,
in.

destroyed,
Receipt for grain.
reign
of
Dungi.
183.
18.
Tablet,
thick.
and } and \
in.
long,
and
and
4 in. wide,
n.
The year of Kimash

reign
of
(sic
!)
Receipt for earthern

i
jars.
Dungi.
184.
13-
Tablet,
thick.
in.
long,
J in. wide,
n.

destroyed,
Receipt for grain.
reign
of
Dungi.
185.
27.
Tablet,
thick.
and
f in. long,
and
\ in. wide, $ in.
Two
years after
Kimash
,
Record of grain gained at a store-house.
was destroyed
of Dungi.
reign
186.
27.
Tablet,
thick.
and
in.
long,
and
{ in. wide, f in.
Two
years after
Kimash
,
Record of grain received and stored.
was destroyed
of Dungi.
reign
187.
27
Tablet,
in.
and
J in. long,
and 3-16
in.
wide, 9-16
Two
years after
Kimash
,
thick.
Record of the barter of
flour for wool.
was destroyed
of Dungi.
reign
188.
49.
Tablet,
thick.
and
I in. long,
and $
in.
wide, f
in.
The year Huhunuri was

destroyed,
Bur-Sin.
List of the tonnage of different ships.
reign
of
30.
Sun-dried tablet,
|
in.
and \
in.
in.
long,
and f
in.
wide,
The year Harshi and

Reign
of
thick.
i
Record of measurements
long,
i
of land.
Dungi (?).
Bur-Sin
de-
196.
13-
Tablet,
thick.
and 9-16 and \
and
\ in. wide, J in.
The
year
Receipt for grain.

i
stroyed Urbillum.
200.
13-
Tablet,
thick.
in.
long,
and ^
in.
wide, f
in.
Receipt
for grain.

for the 9th time,
reign
of Dungi.
202.
12.
Tablet,
thick.
and
J in. long,
and
\ in. wide, \ in!
Receipt for grain.

for the 9th time,
reign
of Dungi. 204.
19.
Sun-dried tablet,
i
much
broken,
and \
in.
long,
(The year) Kimash (was

destroyed),
and
\ in. wide, \ in. thick.
reign of
Bur-
Dungi.
206.
44.
216.
14.
and $ in. long, i and f in. wide, 11-16 in. Record of a crop of grain. thick. in. long, i and \ in. wide, Sun-dried tablet, i and
Tablet,
i
Accession year of
Sin.

destroyed,
in.
thick.
Record
of quantities of grain.
reign
of
Dungi.
217.
43.
Tablet,
thick.
and f
in.
long,
and f
in.
wide,
f in.
oil
The
year
Bur-Sin
de-
List of quantities of food, drink
and
stroyed Urbillum.
assigned to different "messengers."

220.
36.
Tablet,
thick.
and 13-16 in. long, i and $ Record of the formation
in.
wide, f
in.
The
year
Bur-Sin
de-
of a
park
in
stroyed Urbillum.
Girsu by a son of the Patesi.
Plate.
4.
Description of Tablets.
Date.
in.
223.
Reddish tablet,
\
in.
and J
in. long, i
and f
wide,
in
thick.
List of sheep
and kids received
The year after Anshan was destroyed, reign

of Dungi.
the 5th and 6th months.

229.
49.
Tablet,
thick.
and f in. long, i and \ in. wide, 9-16 in. Record of oxen prepared for the temple
separate days.

destroyed,
Bur-Sin.
reign
of
of
23
1
-
Bau on two
49.
Tablet, an almost
illegible palimpsest because the scribal seal was rolled over it in every part above

destroyed,-
reign
of
the original writing,

in.
and ^
in. long, i
and \
in.
Bur-Sin.
wide, \
i
in. thick.
in.
Receipt for money.

i
232.
44.
Tablet,
thick.
and
long,
and f
in.
wide, f
The year the king was
Records of weights of produce (?).
made high
priest
of
234-
47.
Palimpsest, similar to No. 231;
and \
grain.
23549.
in.
wide, \
in. thick.
and f in. long, i Record of grinding

i
Anu, The year Huhunuri was

destroyed,
Bur-Sin.
reign of Bur-Sin.
reign
of
Palimpsest, like preceding,
and
in.
long,
Accession year of GimilSin.
and f
23747.
in.
i
wide,
in. thick.
i
Receipt(?) for sheep.

in.
Tablet,
thick.
and
f in.
List of "
first
and f long, food, drink and
wide,
in.
The
year
Bur-Sin
de-
oil for
various
stroyed Urbillum.
"messengers.
244.
28.
fragment;
half of tablet broken away.

in.
Contains reference to the
and \
in.
long, 3
wide,
in. thick.
Record
year after Kimash was

destroyed and the year
after
of quantities of grain.
that,
reign
of
Dungi.
246.
30.
Account
thick.
tablet, 4
and \
in.
long,
in.
wide, J
in.
The
year
Harshi
and
deof
List
(probably of quantities of grain)
Humurti
stroyed,
Dungi.
were
reign
assigned to different individuals.
248.
28.
Account
2
tablet,
| in.
and
bottom broken away. 4 in. long, Record of quanwide, \ in. thick.
The year
after
Kimash,
reign of Dungi.
tities of
grain assigned to different individuals
for food.
253-
46.
Account
\
tablet, 4
and
$ in. long, 2
and f
in.
wide,
The
year
Bur-Sin
de-
in. thick.
List of
measurements
of fields,
stroyed Urbillum.
weights
2576.
(of grain)
and temple attendants.

but case
Account
is,
tablet, originally a case tablet,

3
The year Shashru

destroyed
,
was
of
except a fragment, destroyed.

2
and J
in.
re
gn
long, and \ of wool for

271.
14.
in.
wide, f
in. thick.
List of weights
Dungi.
clothing.
2 in. long,
i
Sun-dried tablet,
in.
and f
in.
wide, f
thick.
Record of storing grain.

for the 9th time,
reign
of Dungi.
272.
49.
Tablet,
and \
in.
long,
in.
wide, f
in.
thick.

destroyed
Bur-Sin.
reign
of
List of quantities of wool for different kinds

of garments.
25
Plate.
Date.
in.
276.
36.
Tablet,
thick.
and f
and f
in.
long,
and J
in.
wide, }
in.
List of quantities of wool for clothing.

i
281.
50.
Tablet,
thick.
in.
long,
and
wide, 11-16
oil,
in.

declared
List of weights of dates,
etc.
by
de-
cision to be high priest
of
Nannar,
reign
of
Dungi.
283.
50.
Tablet,
thick.
and
i in. long,
and
i in. wide, f in.
The year he was made by

Bur-Sin, the beloved,
to be his high priest.
List of goats
and lambs. and
285.
50.
Tablet,
thick.
and f
in.
long,
in.
wide, \
in.
Receipt for sheep.
made
of
great high priest

,
Eridu
re
g n of
Bur-Sin.
288.
30.
Tablet,
and f in. long, i and i in. wide, f in. thick. Record of food, drink, and oil provided by two men.
i i
The year Harshi and Humurti were destroyed,

reign of Dungi. Accession year of BurSin.
297.
36.
Tablet,
thick.
and f in. long, i and i in. wide, J Record of food and drink provided
in.
for
the 24th and 26th of the
month EZIN-DUNGI
and ^
in.
and the 6th of the month EZIN-BAU.

300.
Tablet of blackish clay,

\
in.
long,
and and
in-
wide,
in. thick.
Receipt for sheep
vested high priest of
kids.
Anu and Nannar

second time,
Dungi.
the
reign of
301.
Palimpsest, similar to No. 231;

i
and $
in.
long,
and f
in.
wide, %
in. thick.
Receipt for grain.
The year Shashru was r e i g n of destroyed

,
Dungi.
35-
19.
Palimpsest, similar to No. 231.

i
and f
in.
long,
and \
in.
wide, f
in.
thick.
Receipt for grain.
The year Kimash was r e i g n of destroyed

,
Dungi.
30910.
Tablet of a coarse clay, containing gravel,

|
in.
and
long,
and f
in.
wide, f
in. thick.
Record

for the 9th time, of Dungi.
of a gift of grain.
reign
3"-
19.

i
and f
thick.
in. long,
and 11-16 and }
in.
wide,
in.
Receipt

of Dungi.
for grain.
314-
Tablet,
in.
long,
and
in.
wide, f
in.
thick.
Receipt for grain.
The year Shashru was r e g n of destroyed

,
Dungi.
Sun-dried tablet,
i in. thick.
i
and
in.
long,
and }
in.
wide,

established
lord
Receipt for six ship-loads of grain

3 at
in.
of
at Girsu,
and
Nippur.
i
Eridu
in.
reign of Dungi.
324-
19.
Tablet,
thick.
and |
long,
and $
wide, J
in.
Receipt for money.
The year Kimash was destroyed reign of

,
Dungi.
26
Plate.
Date.
still
44-
Originally a case tablet a bit of the case

;
clings
in.
The
year
Bur-Sin
de-
to
it;
and $
in.
long,
and J and J
in.
wide, ^
stroyed Urbillum.
thick.
47-
Receipt for grain.
Tablet,
thick.
and $
in.
long,
in.
wide,
in.
Receipt for dates.
The year the throne of Enlil was erect nl,

reign of Bur-Sin.
332.
27.

i
and
in. long,
The year
Dungi.
Kimash was
and
in.
wide, 9-16
in.
thick.
destroyed,
reign of
334-
36.
Tablet,
and
f in. long,
and \
in.
wide, f
in. thick.
Second year of Bur-Sin.
Record of the payment of the principal of a loan of money without the interest.
337-
Tablet,
thick.
and 7-16
in.
long,
and \
in.
wide, f
in.
The year the
Patesi erec-
Receipt for grain.
ted the throne of the
land and Shashru was

destroyed,
re
i
g n of
Dungi.
340.
36.
Tablet,
thick.
and f in. long, i and in. wide, f in. Record of six slaves of one man who
in the field of another.
in. thick.
Accession year of
Sin.
Bur-
worked two months

342.
48.
2 in.
i
and f in. wide, Tablet, long, Receipt for amounts of money.

Tablet,
i
Year the throne
of Enlil
was
erected,
reign of
Bur-Sin.
345-
and f
in.
long,
and \
oil
in.
wide, f
in. thick.
The year Harshi and Humurti were destroyed,

reign of Dungi.
Record of food, drink and ferent men.

34914-
furnished four dif-
Tablet,
thick.
and f in. long, i and \ Record of the erection and f in.
in.
wide, f
in.

destroyed,
of a wall.
reign of
Dungi.
355-
Tablet crumbling,
in.
long,
and
in.
wide,
The year Gimil-Sin, the

king
thick.
is
i
Receipt, the word denoting for
....
what
361.
48.
broken away.
in.
Tablet,
thick.
and
long,
and J
in.
wide,
in.

established high priest
of
Receipt for quantities of food, drink,
and
oil.
Anu and
Ishtar,
reign of Bur-Sin.
3 6 4-
Tablet,
and f in. long, 2 in. wide, i in. Record of amounts of grain stored up.
2
thick.
The year Urbillum was r e i g n of destroyed,

Dungi.
37-
20.
Account
thick.
tablet, 3
and f
in.
long,
in.
wide, f
in.
Two
years after
Kimash
reign
List of cattle under charge of different
was
destroyed,
herdsmen.
376.
47-
of Dungi.
Account
tablet, 3
and f
in.
long,
and f
in.
wide,
The
year
Bur-Sin
de-
I in. thick.
List of quantities of food for various
stroyed Urbillum.
individuals.
379<r
Account
3
tablet, sun-dried,
in.
bottom broken away;

J in.
and f
long, 2
and
wide
f in. thick.
The year Nannar KARZI-DA was established

,
List of food-supplies for various temple officials
reign of
Dungi (?).
and
slaves.
27
Tablet No. in Haverrord College Collection.
P1
Date.
380.
20.
Account
i
tablet, obverse defaced; 3

J in.
and
} in. long,
The
year
Kimash was
re
i
and
wide,
in. thick.
List of rations of
destroyed,
g n of
grain assigned to different individuals for six
Dungi.
months.
39337-
Account
f
in
tablet, 3
and
J in. long, 2
and \
in.
wide,
Accession year of
Sin.
Bur-
in. thick.
Record of quantities of grain raised different fields, and slaves who worked in
them.
396.
8.
Account
i
tablet, 4
in.
thick,
and f in. long, 3 and f in. wide, somewhat broken at lower end.
The year Shashru was

destroyed
,
re
gn
Quantities of wool for clothing assigned to different temple attendants. 400.

10.
Dungi.
Tablet
thick.
and
-J-
in. long,
and \
in.
wide,
-J
in.
Record of storing three talents
of wheat.
The year Simurru and Lurubu were destroyed

for the Qth time,
reign
of Dungi.
HLA.
7.
u->-
W#m 1
MM
TT
te**f
~^\
if
IT
fit
///////////
n
//
P.
fi
'
Jot.
'W^tarSfer fAA Jr
fcnsBp/^r t-B*^
m
t
^r
&u.
*^5pj
>*>%g^w^
Errv^m
/3rwwwr
HL
ifrEflu^BffCTtpy
^^îf
TV.
<r
<r
<r
<r
H-U4
3/1
nr
s^.
X=Ê3gy
Vgsjrm&F&g ^HH-*3?-^-=-
H-L 4*
c s-
ÎCSSJ
jr^minm/m^m
fr/MBf
t^fe^fr^Pff
!?<<,.
<r
rm"-^HWmu
Wft
5M
îSSjlBfr
TM
ay ^F- ir
mmmm
w*<g<^y
fefc>>flrint3rea
r^^ttMV*
55
*'*
81
Wstnm&r.w
330.
tr
'HOT
teHtgj^Ka***
HL -&.
3.
^mts^y^'
.ffH^tH
5^1
m
TT
fflB8>-
n?
m
2.
^TTEH
TF-ba-TETi
Tf
<
HL4
to.
C3.
IP
or
Oc
o
<*
(tr
ffil
B
4
III
1
p
b-
376.
l
, in
fc
University of Toronto
Library
IO
CD
0)
DO NOT REMOVE THE CARD FROM

THIS
POCKET
Acme
Library Card Pocket
Pat. "Ref. Index File"
Under
Made by LIBRARY BUREAU

The Haverford Library of Cuneiform Tablets I

Загружено:

Сведения о документе

Исходное описание:

Авторское право

Доступные форматы

Поделиться этим документом

Поделиться или встроить документ

Параметры публикации

Этот документ был вам полезен?

Это неприемлемый материал?

Авторское право:

Доступные форматы

The Haverford Library of Cuneiform Tablets I

Загружено:

Авторское право:

Доступные форматы

<r

THE HAVERFORD LIBRARY COLLECTION

HAVERFORD LIBRARY COLLECTION

DOCUMENTS FROM THE TEMPLE

NEW HAVEN YALE

PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION

Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania,

place period at end of line

begin line with capital T.

instead of period at the end

texts here presented are the

Library Collection of cuneiform tablets to be published.

This collection, consisting of four

work upon these

tablets impossible until the

ulary will be issued.

Although the tablets were purchased

reason to believe, as the

reasons, then, are as follows:

M. de Sarzec at Telloh discovered a chamber which contained

an immense number of tablets

estimated at thirty thousand.

many that it was Many tablets were

tablets of the period before

tablets, too, of similar

varieties, form, clay

have been offered for

sale in different parts of the

Museum's Mittheilungen aus den

in a private letter that the

Louvre contains many unpublished tab-

and M. Thureau-Dangin, Recueil de

tablettes chaldeennes, 1903, p. i.

the same kind as those contained in the publications of the

London and Ber-

that de Sarzec's discovery explains

such tablets have been offered for sale in

different parts of the world.

internal study of the tablets supports this conclusion.

Girsu, Nina, Kinunir,

which once flourished on the

names of town, more frequently than those

For these reasons

believed that the sub-title of this

For the benefit

the so-called Stele of Vultures, bearing an inscription of

Eannadu who reigned about 4100

Gudea who ruled about 3000

have also been recovered.

these inscribed objects

learn that the city which created the

consisted in reality of four other

Girsu, Nina, Erim,

called themselves Patesi.

of these, like Gudea, were powerful

monarchs and practically

tablets bearing the

together, but as the tablets are of different sizes the exigencies of

has been shown that the inhabitants of Shirpurla were Semites, 8

employ the Sumerian

the earliest times, however, the native Semitic

Similar Semitic idiom appears in our texts:

the use of ana as a preposition instead of the use of a post-position