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SAA 15 317. Why Have You Cultivated so Few Fields? (ABL 1019)

SAA 15 318. Ploughing with Six Oxen (CT 53 209)

SAA 15 319. Fragment Referring to Harvest (CT 53 725)

SAA 15 320. Fragment Referring to Harvesting (CT 53 599)

SAA 15 321. Setting aside Barley Rations (CT 53 180)

SAA 15 322. Providing Barley Rations and Fodder (CT 53 301)

SAA 15 323. Issuing Barley Rations (CT 53 499)

SAA 15 324. Fragment Concerning Corn Rations and Oxen (CT 53 684)

SAA 15 325. Fragment Concerning Corn Rations and Camels (CT 53 685)

SAA 15 326. Fragment Concerning Straw (CT 53 706)

SAA 15 327. Fragment Concerning Straw (CT 53 707)

SAA 15 328. Fragment Concerning Seed Corn and Corn Rations (CT 53 927)

SAA 15 329. Fragment Concerning Grass and Straw (CT 53 786)

SAA 15 330. Providing Horses with Straw (CT 53 474)

SAA 15 331. Fragment Referring to Straw (CT 53 384)

SAA 15 332. Fragment Referring to Road Stations (CT 53 821)

SAA 15 333. Fragment Referring to Mule Express (CT 53 352)

SAA 15 334. Inventorying Horses (CT 53 526)

SAA 15 336. Fragment Referring to Cavalry (CT 53 845)

SAA 15 337. Fragment Referring to Mares (ABL 1270)

SAA 15 338. Fragment Mentioning Horses, Oxen and Sheep (CT 53 471)

SAA 15 339. Fragment Mentioning Sheep (CT 53 299)

SAA 15 340. Fragment Concerning Sheep (CT 53 549)

SAA 15 341. Inspecting the Fort and Clearing Canals (CT 53 228)

SAA 15 342. Coming for the Work Assignment (CT 53 431)

SAA 15 343. (no title)

SAA 15 344. Why Do You not Glaze Bricks? (CT 53 476)

SAA 15 345. What are You Doing? (CT 53 395)

SAA 15 346. Doing the Work (ABL 1441)

SAA 15 347. Fragment Concerning a Wall etc. (CT 53 640)

SAA 15 348. Limestone and Master Builders (CT 53 239)

SAA 15 349. Fragment Concerning Master Builders (CT 53 911)

SAA 15 350. Watch Over Houses Neglected (CT 53 291)

SAA 15 351. A Search Effort (ABL 0996)

SAA 15 352. Difficult Terrain (CT 53 338)

SAA 15 353. Tracks on the Riverside (CT 53 203)

SAA 15 354. Battle on the Riverside (CT 53 358)

SAA 15 355. Report on a Battle (CT 53 360)

SAA 15 356. The Magnates Have Set Out (CT 53 181)

SAA 15 357. (no title) (CT 53 231)

SAA 15 358. Fragment Mentioning Heralds and Jugs of Wine (CT 53 355)

SAA 15 359. Wine for the Daughter of [NN] and her Escort (CT 53 443)

SAA 15 360. Visit by Two Ladies

SAA 15 361. Gifts from a Lady (CT 53 439)

SAA 15 362. Entering Copper Objects into the Treasury (CT 53 534)

SAA 15 363. Talents of Lapis Lazuli (ABL 1300)

SAA 15 364. Corn Taxes Collected but Deficits not Supplied (CT 53 416)

SAA 15 365. Let them Give me Troops (ABL 1188)

SAA 15 366. Gathering Troops (CT 53 368)

SAA 15 367. Giving away Elite Troops (CT 53 067)