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~2400 BCE·Early DynasticOur engine

CUSAS 35, 412

13 — Si-du₃ 27 (= 30 minus 3) — Ur-ni 25 — the overseer, [who is the] nu-banda₃ officer 20 — Ur-nin-ildu₃ 15 — Ur-sag-Utu 12 — Du₁₁-[ga]-ni-du₁₀ 11 — E₂-kur-nu-si 19 (= 20 minus 1) — Ur-en-nun Total: 142 [...]

Economy

~2400 BCE·Early DynasticOur engine

CUSAS 35, 413

20 ewes; 4 fattened ewes, 1 ram — prime-quality. 15 lambs; [x?] x x lambs; [...] x; 2 male lambs, 3 female kids (bar-li category) — collected. 7 shorn female kids, 3 fattened sheep — prime-quality. 10 ewes, 15 male lambs, shorn — gazelles — collected, fattened, [and] given [out]. [...] great storehouse [...] for shearing: 30(?) minus 3 — year 7, month [x].

Economy

~2400 BCE·Early DynasticOur engine

CUSAS 35, 419

½ shekel of refined silver — [disbursed:] Ba-NI 1 male sheep — Lugal-ezem 1 shekel: Lu-x-[...] 2 shekels — silver, purchase price: [name broken] 2 shekels — silver, purchase price: Dingir-lu-mah 2 shekels — silver, purchase price: Ur-Pu-sag 2 shekels — silver, purchase price: Di-Utu and Lugal-ezem ⅓ shekel — silver, purchase price: Ur-sag-Utu [n] shekels silver [...] [...two signs illegible...] 4⅓ shekels silver — Ab-ba-tur 2 goats

Economy

~2400 BCE·Early DynasticOur engine

CUSAS 35, 476

2 gur 3 barig of barley — coarse groats: [account of] GAN-NE 10 minas of garlic — (as) purchase commodity ½ (unit) of silver — received 12 minas of wool 1 (vessel of) beer 1 person ½ (unit) of ritual cleansing liquid 50 orchard fruits [account of] GAN-NE 3 ban2 of emmer wheat 30 orchard fruits 10 aktum-garments 10 (loaves of) bread; 1 (unit): silver account

Economy

~2400 BCE·Early DynasticOur engine

DP 027

Tablet-basket [record]: Fish (for) the dusu-basket; fish for the banszur-table — the fishermen of the elders who brought (them) — fish of A-du10-ga, which is with him/her: finest quality. Wife of Uruinimgina, king of Lagash — 3 [measures].

Economy

~2400 BCE·Early DynasticOur engine

DP 039

353 gur-saggal of barley; 193 [gur-saggal] of white emmer wheat; 53 [gur-saggal] of gu2-nida grain; 10 [gur-saggal] of gig wheat. Grand total: 609 gur-saggal. Field ki-ti — subsistence allotment of En-e-tar-zi, governor of Lagaš. At ki-ti, trees were felled. Ur-šer7-da transferred [it] to him. [Year/term] 4.

Economy

~2400 BCE·Early DynasticOur engine

DP 052

10 loaves of finest bread — as food rations; 50 [measures of] sur-product; 10 [measures of] milk for the junior official; 40 [measures of] mudx-grade milk; (for) Nanše: 30 [measures of] sur-product; 20 [measures of] mudx-grade milk; (for) Nindar: [bread,] pure milk; Baranamtara, wife of Lugalanda, governor of Lagash — 4 [...]

Economy

~2400 BCE·Early DynasticOur engine

DP 061

1 ram, returning — belonging to (the district of) Abzu-gu. (Property) of the governor (ensi₂), for the holdings of his šagan-official, when it came — for Bara-namtara, a mark was applied [branded/tallied]; a ram for consumption. Enku is the fattener (kuruszda). Total: 2.

Economy

~2400 BCE·Early DynasticOur engine

DP 064

1 male sheep — (for) Nindara; 1 sheep — (for) Ninmush-bar(?); 1 sheep — (for) Ninmar; [when] Nindara('s statue) [was] led/brought [into] her [new] house, Baranamtara, wife of Lugalanda, ruler of Lagash, had (it) allotted (as offering); sheep consumed (in offering). (Under) Enku, the fattener. Total: 2.

Economy·Religion & Myth

~2400 BCE·Early DynasticOur engine

DP 079

1 ram, a bar-nigin (rounded-up/fattened ram) — disbursed. Bara-namtara, (wife of) the ensi (ruler of Lagash), at the mouth of the [Pirig-tur-gin-du] canal, Muti-la(?) [delivered] to her. [Sheep consumed (as offering)]. Ur-du6, the cowherd (šuš3-official).

Economy

~2400 BCE·Early DynasticOur engine

DP 080

1 sheep: the ruler (ensi2). 1 goat: the priest (sanga) of Nanše. 1 lamb, 1 goat: the priest of Ninmar. — consumed together (at the riverbank/collective meal). 1 sheep: of the ruler's (household). 1 sheep: the chief scribe. On the day of the funeral bier, at the libation place, (these) were consumed. 1 sheep ... [...] Total, [summed up]: was brought to be eaten. It is (the) sheep (that) were consumed.

Economy

~2400 BCE·Early DynasticOur engine

DP 085

1 lamb — [regular offering (maš-da-re-a)] — [...] [1 goat] — (for) the day of Ninuma, wife of Lala the herald; 1 short-horned goat — (for) the sanga-priest of Nanše. Month: "Festival of Lugal-uru11" — completed. To Baranamtara it was delivered. Enku, the animal-fattener (is responsible). ... 5.

Economy

~2400 BCE·Early DynasticOur engine

DP 090

1 ram, shorn (ready for delivery) — mašdaria-offering (obligatory gift): Ninbur, wife of the land-surveyor, (to) Baranamtara. Month: 'Festival of Malt-Eating'. Of Lugal-urukaka, to the Women's House it was delivered. Enku, the (livestock) fattener, carried it. 2 (entry/total).

Economy

~2400 BCE·Early DynasticOur engine

DP 103

1 toe(?), numbering 1(?) — a toe (was) dug out/cut — (of) Dingir-šešmu, who is a cowherd — (by) Ninĝirsu-lumu('s) dal-bird (goose) — he/it was pecked/struck. Its silver: 10 shekels. Sasa, wife of Uru-inimgina, ruler of Lagash, into the palace, into her hand, caused it to be returned. 1.

Law·Economy

~2400 BCE·Early DynasticOur engine

DP 104

50 large goats/kids — maš-dun-a goats (driven/led goats), (for) Enku, the fattener. Enig-gal, the overseer, after the malt-eating festival of Nanše — (from) Lugal-inim, shepherd of the goats, at the gate of the house of Eki(?) — was given to him. Not entered on the summary (wide) tablet. 3.

Economy

~2400 BCE·Early DynasticOur engine

DP 140

16 men: Ur-šerda. 18: Inim-du. 15: U₂-U₂. 4: boatmen. 1 leather-worker: 2 barig. 1 carpenter: 2 barig. 3 barig each: carpenters. 15: Ur-sag. Foreman of the porters (il₂-workers). En-iggal, the nubanda (administrator). Tablet of barley rations of Ningirsu — he wrote (it) out. 1.

Economy

~2400 BCE·Early DynasticOur engine

DP 142

2 gur (of the gur-saggal measure), 2 ban2: barley rations, NE-GI-bar barley, gur-saggal measure — (for) Sag-Ningirsuda; 1 gur, 2 barig: Enku; 1 gur, 1 barig, 1 ban2: Lugal-sipa. Total: 5 gur less 3 ban2, NE-GI-bar barley, gur-saggal measure. Month: [...]. Of (the estate/house of) Ningirsu: En-iggal, the overseer, to the porters (íl-workers) disbursed (it). 4 (units/persons) — it is (confirmed as) 4. 1 gur: I(d)-lu-sikil, son of Ur-Ninmar, man of Inimanizi.

Economy

~2400 BCE·Early DynasticOur engine

DP 143

2 barig barley — for the birds to eat — En-ushurre carried (it) off. 4 ban2 barley — the man of Umma: Ur-mud (and) Andatila — as barley rations, carried (it) off. Consumption: barley of the cut threshing-floor, of Geme-Tarsirsira. Month: "the oxen are pastured." En-iggal, the manager (nu-banda3), disbursed (rations) to them: 2.

Economy

~2400 BCE·Early DynasticOur engine

DP 146

22 gur 2 barig of white emmer wheat, in the gur-saggal (standard) measure: the regular offering for 2 months — (for/from) Amar-girid. 20 gur of emmer wheat: the regular offering of dark beer for 1 month, was set in its place there. Ili-beli, one of the brewers. Enšugigi, the steward, from the storehouse of good appearance, has allocated (it) — 6th (entry).

Economy

~2400 BCE·Early DynasticOur engine

DP 147

22 gur 2 barig of white emmer, by the gur-saggal (standard) measure — regular delivery, month 2. (Account of) Amar-giri16. 20 (gur) emmer, regular delivery of black beer, for month 1, was set in its place. Ili-beli, (they are) the brewers. Enshugigi, the steward — from the storehouse 'Before-my-true-eye' (Igizimušebar), he set out for them: 6, 3 were set.

Economy

~2400 BCE·Early DynasticOur engine

DP 151

Total: 67 gur less 2 ban2 (in) the sagal-standard gur — barley rations for the people holding ration-plots (šuku-holders). 29 gur, 1 barig, 2 ban2: barley rations for the carriers, the blind, (and) the craftsmen, (recorded) on separate individual tablets. 42 gur, 1 barig, 2 ban2: barley allocated as the regular delivery, its additional portion existing besides. Grand total: 138 gur, 2 ban2 of barley, in the sagal-standard gur — barley rations, barley allocations, of the House of Baba, from the granary of the House of Baba, the (next) following (disbursement). Enshugigi, the steward, disbursed…

Economy

~2400 BCE·Early DynasticOur engine

DP 170

1 gur, 1 ban2, 3 sila bread — 'dub'-bread, sig-beer; 1 ban2, 3 sila bread — hot bread; 2 ban2 is its beer-bread (bappir); 3 ban2 is its malt — (for) sweet dark beer, for Nin-e-muš, the lady, the woman — it was brought to her. 3 ban2 beer-bread, sig-beer, 5 ban2 malt — its beer, at the woman's place, was strained/pressed, consumed by Amar-giri, the man of the brewer — 5.

Economy

~2400 BCE·Early DynasticOur engine

DP 178

5 units of shorn wool: for Abgal. 2 units of shorn wool: for Nimgir-Ešatum (the herald). 5 (units) — for the men who haul the boat-tow-rope, wool 1 unit each — received. The men who bring the pure milk (or: the silver of the dairy) — Baranamtara, wife of Lugalanda, ruler of Lagash, gave (this) to them. First (occasion).

Economy

~2400 BCE·Early DynasticOur engine

DP 199

1 sheep: Ninmara. 1 sheep: the cattle-pen. For giving water to the calves (a weaning rite) — (of) Bara-namtara. The wood was touched (the rite was performed). Ninmumada'ag, the hairdresser, brought it in. Consumed by Enku, the fattener. Month 4.

Economy

~2400 BCE·Early DynasticOur engine

DP 200

1 sheep — for Mesandu; 1 sheep — for Ninšubur; (from) Baranamtara. When the month "Festival of Lugal-Uru(b)" was completed, and she went to the house of the new crescent moon of the holy city, the ritual wood was touched (the rite was performed); the sheep were consumed (as offerings). Enku, the livestock-fattener (delivered them) — total: 4.

Economy

~2400 BCE·Early DynasticOur engine

DP 201

1 ram — for Mesandu. (From) Baranamtara. After the festival 'barley-eating' of Nanše, it was branded (tallied), consumed. Enku is the fattener. 5.

Economy

~2400 BCE·Early DynasticOur engine

DP 202

1 sheep, 1 goat, beer (and) bread, together with (from) the threshing floor, to the place of the ruler (ensi2) were brought. Sheep for consumption (ration) — En-ku, is (responsible as) the fattener. 5 (tally/seal notation).

Economy

~2400 BCE·Early DynasticOur engine

DP 204

10 ninda-bread (loaves) of fine flour, 30 sur-cakes, 1 nig2-banda3-measure of milk, 25 (units) of mud-ga (dairy product) — for Nanše; 20 sur-cakes, 1 nig2-banda3-measure of milk, [x] mud-ga — for Nindara; pure milk-bread — Baranamtara, wife of Lugalanda, ruler (ensi2) of Lagash, had delivered to her. 2.

Economy

~2400 BCE·Early DynasticOur engine

DP 209

1 ram, 1 goat, 1 young/thin goat — as mašdare-offering — (from) A-agrig-zi, the sanga-priest of (the goddess) Ninmar. Month: 'Festival of malt-eating of Ningirsu.' Baranamtara delivered (it) to her. Enku, the fattener — disbursed: 4th (entry/occurrence).

Economy

~2400 BCE·Early DynasticOur engine

DP 210

1 short-horned goat: mashdaria-offering (regular offering) — (of) Gešgalsi, (of) Gal-UN. 1 goat, sig-grade: the temple administrator (sanga) Dugru (brought it) — for Bara-namtara. Month: "the malt-feast of Nanše." It was brought/delivered to the palace. Enku, the fattener, disbursed (it): total 4.

Economy

~2400 BCE·Early DynasticOur engine

DP 217

1 ewe — (as) mashdaria-offering, (from) the wife of the sanga-priest of Ebabbar, to the Abzu at the bank of the canal, (delivered by) Baranamtara. In the month 'House-of-sheep-shearing,' it was struck down (slaughtered) (and) consumed. Enku is the fattening-official (in charge). Niglu, the minister (sukkal), (is responsible). Its enforcers (maszkim): 5.

Economy

~2400 BCE·Early DynasticOur engine

DP 219

1 male sheep (ram) — Bara-irnun, wife of Alla, the fuller (garment-cleaner) — for the newborn child. When the festival of Lugal-uru(11)-ka was finished, in the kitchen it was prepared for her. Sheep consumed — Enku, is (the responsibility) of the fattener. Total: 4.

Economy

~2400 BCE·Early DynasticOur engine

DP 232

8 oxen, of one year (age), grass-fed (pasture-raised) oxen: Lugalanda, ruler of Lagash, to the palace, as returned calves, to Dingir-šešmu, the cowherd, he gave. 1 (head), of their cowherds, has not been withdrawn (remains outstanding).

Economy

~2400 BCE·Early DynasticOur engine

DP 259

1 wool sheep: Nigar-mud. 1 wool sheep: Lugal-da. They are the shepherds of the wool sheep. Month: 'Festival of malt-eating' of (the goddess) Nanše. Concerning this matter, it was set/imposed (upon them). Urukagina, ruler (ensi2) of Lagash, returned (them) to the palace. Total: 1.

Economy

~2400 BCE·Early DynasticOur engine

DP 260

1 wool-sheep — na-e-ma-ri (offering/allocation). Month: 'wool-distribution.' En-DU, shepherd of the wool-sheep, (delivered it) to Sasa, wife of Urukagina, king of Lagaš; in the palace it was returned/delivered into her hand. Total: 1.

Economy

~2400 BCE·Early DynasticOur engine

DP 261

2 wool-sheep: En-DU, shepherd of the wool-sheep — guaranteed (in his charge; na-ba-da-ri). Month: 'the oxen plow' (Gu4-ra2-bi2-mu2). Sasa — when she went to the house of the new-moon (festival) of Nina[k], and was returned safely from Nina — sheep-hides, of grass-fed sheep, were given (ba-ba6, disbursed). Urukagina, king of Lagash. 1.

Economy

~2400 BCE·Early DynasticOur engine

DP 262

2 wool sheep (rams). Month: "Sheep-for-Barley" — barley of the canal/watercourse of Ningirsu. En-DU, shepherd of the wool sheep, was made to swear an oath (lit. "the peg was driven in for him"). Sasa, wife of Urukagina, king of Lagash, had (them) returned to the palace. The u2-rum sheep were allotted/disbursed. Urukagina, king of Lagash. 1.

Economy

~2400 BCE·Early DynasticOur engine

DP 263

4 wool sheep. Month: "Baba is brought into her new house." En-DU, shepherd of the wool sheep, therewith deposited (them). (For) Sasa, wife of Urukagina, king of Lagash — for the women's household (é-mí), into his hand it was returned. 1 (total).

Economy

~2400 BCE·Early DynasticOur engine

DP 264

4 jars of scented/pressed oil — via (conveyed by): (of these jars, the 'kur'-type ones are 2) — En-šu, (to/by) the ka-šagan (oil-vessel official), (who) returned (it) by hand. En-iggal, the manager (nu-banda3). Month: 'Sheep-for-Barley'; barley [of] Ningirsu's (estate/temple) — into the É-munus (Women's Household), measured/poured out: 2.

Economy

~2400 BCE·Early DynasticOur engine

DP 266

6 sila of pig fat (lard). The fat — its designation: the 3rd (time). Via his (own) agent it was received (giri3-ni ba-dab5). 13 sila (for/of) Nin-e-an-su. Via [his] (own) agent it was received (giri3#-[ni]-ba-dab5#-da), it is at his disposal (deposited with him). From within it: 10 sila of pig fat was carried out/withdrawn. 3 (in the ASZxDISZ notation).

Economy

~2400 BCE·Early DynasticOur engine

DP 267

10 jars of scented (pressed) oil, via Illu — the oil-pressers: was returned/delivered into (their) hand. Month: "Gu4-ra2-bi2-mu2-a" (the month of leading out the oxen). Eniggal, the overseer, (is responsible for/of) the women's household. Oil poured out: 4.

Economy

~2400 BCE·Early DynasticOur engine

DP 269

11 jars of scented oil (i3-ir-a) — via Enšu, the ka-šagan-official. Month: 'when the oxen are led out (to pasture)' (Gu4-ra2-bi2-mu2-a). Of (the temple/household of) Nanše — it was repaid/returned. Bara-namtara, wife of Lugalanda, ensi2 of Lagash: into the storehouse (e2-nig2-gur11-ra) it was delivered — 6 (th entry).

Economy

~2400 BCE·Early DynasticOur engine

DP 270

5 jars of prime-quality oil (i3-nun), 10 jars of cow's oil (i3-ab2) — (for) Enshugigi, to the ka-šagan (official) — pressed oil (i3-ir-a), for delivery (ra2-de3). Eniggal, the manager (nu-banda3): month: "barley carried for the sheep" (iti udu-še3 še a il2-la). Of Nanše's women's household (e2-munus-a), poured out for her (i3-na-de2): 3.

Economy

~2400 BCE·Early DynasticOur engine

DP 271

10 jars minus 4 sila of princely oil (ghee) — from the storehouse (e2-nig2-gur11) — was brought out. 4 jars of princely oil (ghee) — for the shepherds of the nanny-goats — to be poured out, to be smeared with fat, carried, to be rubbed in repeatedly — (for) Bara-namtara, wife of Lugalanda, ruler of Lagash — from the Women's House was set aside for her. 3 (entry/total).

Economy

~2400 BCE·Early DynasticOur engine

DP 273

5 jars of cow butter-fat, deposited/placed; 1 gur (saggal-measure), 1 barig of cheese/curd — for the wife (nam-dam); 4 jars of butter-fat, 1 (measure) of cheese: Mesagnudi; Total: 10 minus 1 (= 9) jars of cow butter-fat, 2 gur (saggal-measure), 1 barig of cheese/curd — butter-fat of the cows, the yield/produce. En-entarzi, governor of Lagash — in the palace, its inspection was carried out: 4th (occasion).

Economy

~2400 BCE·Early DynasticOur engine

DP 285

10 tar-loaves, 1 gu-gur10-loaf, 3 gu-ubi-loaves, 3 gab-carrying-loads of salt, 2 gurdub-vessels of aged agargara-fish, fish (in) a dusu-basket, festival malt — consumed, (for) the festival of Nanše. The junior gala-singer (and) the gudu-priest Adun'a — brought (it); total: 1.

Economy

~2400 BCE·Early DynasticOur engine

DP 287

[x] tar-fish, 8(gešʼ2) (480) ubi-fish — (for) Lugal-ša, weighed out (and) brought forth for the offering table. 20 tar-fish, 7(gešʼ2) (420) ubi-fish, 60 kimu-fish — (as) first-fruit offering (nesaĝ): it is fish of the dusu-basket (creel). En-iggal, the inspector (nubanda). Month: "Festival of malt-consumption" of (the goddess) Nanše. The ebar-house of Bilgames (Gilgameš) — built (it) — delivered. Year 2.

Economy

~2400 BCE·Early DynasticOur engine

DP 288

[...] split, its (individual) portions: 1380 (2(gešu) 3(geš2)) split a-dartun-fish, split, ... of the woman Lika, the scribe of the ruler (ensi2) — he counted (them). The fishermen: Enig-gal, the overseer (nubanda), they returned into his hand. 2.

Economy

~2270 BCE·Akkadian EmpireOur engine

AAICAB 1/2, pl. 140, 1971-349

20 (shekels of barley), top-quality rations — Gala-priest of the master-carpenter; 20 (shekels): Ur-e'a, the leather-worker; 20 (shekels): Inim-Utu; 20 (shekels): En-an-ne, [of the] lower [quality / second grade]; (quantity lost): Gala-priest, [of the] lower [quality / second grade]; 20 (shekels): Ad-kup-gal; — the 'non-irrigating man' (canal-work gang); their overseer: the farmer (agricultural official).

Economy

~2270 BCE·Akkadian EmpireOur engine

AAICAB 1/3, pl. 245, Bod S 295

2 barig of Akkadian bappir (beer-bread) 2 barig of groats 2 barig of malt 2 barig of flour 2 ban of fine flour (for/by) Mama-hursag Total: 1 gur 3 barig 2 ban of flour — Akkadian 2 ban of fine flour Year 3, month 7

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