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~2099 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianOur engine

AAICAB 1/2, pl. 093, 1935-541

16 sar 10 gin2 of bricks — (for) Agagaa, the singer/musician. 20 sar of bricks — within the hamlet (e2-duru5). 3 2/3 sar 5 gin2 — within the mill-house (e2-kikken-na) — (for) the boatman. Bricks carried, as reckoned (szid-da). [...] Umani — via [conveyor?]. Month: 'e2-iti-6' (month 6). Year: 'the throne of Enlil was fashioned.'

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~2099 BCE·Old BabylonianOur engine

Achaemenid Persian

MS 1739/1

Obverse: 1 gur of barley, royal (standard measure), for the price of 1 shekel of silver [plus] one quarter-shekel, from Katar, Puzur-Haya received. Witness: Ur-Duku-ga; Witness: Puzur-Haya (II). Month: intercalary Šekinku[5] (harvest month), Year: the throne of Enlil was fashioned. Reverse (second transaction): 1 gur of barley [...] Year: [...] Witness: Puzur-[...] Month: intercalary Še[kinku5], Year: the throne of [Enlil was fashioned].

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~2086 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianOur engine

AAICAB 1/1, pl. 055, 1923-427

15 kaskal-...[broken] 7 doves (tu-gur8) delivered into the palace, from Lugal-ku3zu, via ...[PN broken], under seal of Ur-[Šul]-pa-e3. Month: Dal. Year: 'The throne of Enlil was fashioned.' (Seal:) Ur-Šulpa-e3, scribe, son of Lugal-ku3ga-[ni].

Economy

~2085 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianOur engine

AAICAB 1/1, pl. 059, 1924-0555

2 lambs, the 28th day; from Abba-saga — Intaea took in charge (received them). Month: extra month, following the festival of Me-ki-gal; Year: "the throne of Enlil was fashioned" (Šu-Suen year 5). 2 (total).

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~2045 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianOur engine

AAS 048

1 milch cow, 1 milk[-fed] ox, (1) calf of a draft ox — via Abbagina, the herdsman, a courier received (them). Year: Harshi and Kimaš were destroyed.

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~2033 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianOur engine

AAS 024

[2 eše] 3 iku of field — tug2-gur bundling work, [at a rate of] ½ iku [+] ¼ iku per [worker-day]; for rafter-wood work, times 3, [at a rate of] 4 iku ½ iku per [worker-day] — [The labor] of the workers thereof: 150 days. [The field:] KWU729-x-[…]. [Overseer:] Šeš?-[…]. [Sealed by] Ur-emah. Year after Šu-Suen, [the king], built the Martu (Amorite) wall. Ur-emah, scribe, son of Dada.

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~2017 BCE·Old BabylonianOur engine

TLB 05, 10

1 nahbatum-container of royal kakkara(-oil?) Black sheep-skin (of a ram): 9 [units] its price: 5 shekels 8 pairs of sandals with toe-caps — royal kakkara(-quality) — 1 (for) each 2 Ox-hide, u'habbu-processed: 5 shekels Black billy-goat skin: 2/3 [shekel] 3 masabbu-baskets of bread (and) cake their bitumen/pitch: 5 sila (All this) for the offering-storehouse Via: Ur-alla and Iddin-Adad, the cook Overseer: Anah-ili Day n Month: Abu (the 'fires of Ab') Year: Ishbi-Erra, the king, defeated Shimashki and Elam [Tablet-]copy

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~1900 BCE·Old AssyrianOur engine

Erišum I 03

Documents Erišum I's temple construction at Aššur and its ritual furnishings — bronze duck weights and beer vats — giving the earliest detailed record of cultic equipment in an Assyrian royal building inscription.

AAICAB 1/2, pl. 093, 1935-541

MS 1739/1

AAICAB 1/1, pl. 055, 1923-427

AAICAB 1/1, pl. 059, 1924-0555

AAS 048

AAS 024

TLB 05, 10

Erišum I 03

Erišum I 06

Erišum I 10

Šamši-Adad I 02

Šamši-Adad I 11

Aminu 2001

Aminu 2002

Azuzu 2001 / Man-ištušu 2002

Erišum I 01

Erišum I 02

Erišum I 04

Erišum I 05

Erišum I 07

Erišum I 08

Erišum I 09

Erišum I 1001

Erišum I 11

Erišum I 12

Erišum I 13

Erišum I 14

Erišum I 15

Erišum I 16

Erišum I 17

Ikunum 1

Ikunum 2

Ikunum 3

Ikunum 4

Ikunum 5add (formerly Šamši-Adad I 03)

Ilu-šumma 1

Ilu-šumma 2

Puzur-Sin 1001

Šalim-aḫum 1

Šamši-Adad I 01

Šamši-Adad I 03 (= Ikunum 5add)

Šamši-Adad I 04

Šamši-Adad I 05

Šamši-Adad I 06

Šamši-Adad I 07

Šamši-Adad I 08

Šamši-Adad I 09

Šamši-Adad I 10

Šamši-Adad I 1001

Šamši-Adad I 12