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3 loads (gu2) of ninni5-rush — [PN ...]-gi-[...]: [x] of it on hand (deposited); 2 (loads): La-gipum; 2 (loads): the son of A-kigal; 2 (loads): Puzurra; 1(?) (load): [...]; 3 (loads): [Nin-me]-sag(?); 3 of it on hand (deposited).
Economy
[x] Ur-sag, [x] Aš-ne, 2: Lu-[...], 1: Ad-da, 1: Ur-dub-[la], [...]-ka(?) [...], [...]-a-bu-[...], 1: Lu-...-[...], 1: Ur-eš-[lila], 1: Lu-...-il. [Its total:] 25 (men).
Economy
(obverse) [n minas] of silver, [n] shekels — [...]-KAK-KAK (personal name); [n] shekels of silver — [...] ... ... [...] (Break) 1 bur3 3 iku of prime field (GAN2-mah): its purchase price — 10 shekels of silver.
Law
676 gur-saggal of barley, 197 gur 1 barig 3 ban 10 (sila) of white emmer, — barley of the nig-ena (the lord's estate produce) — (from) the small field, the field of the Gu-edina, the subsistence plot of the ruler. En-iggal, the overseer, threshed it (lit. 'beat it with the flail'). Inim-du, the foreman, transferred it to him. Lugalanda(-nuhunga), ruler of Lagash. Year 2.
Economy
35 bur of land: property of the en (lord), (in) the field Huburum; 15 bur of field, taken out from the ŠA-zi (land); Total: 50 bur — property of the en, of (the god) Šul-šagana. Ur-[...] ... [...] [...] Lagash. 2(nd year?).
Economy
Lugal-abbamu, Ur-lumma, Dam-aba, 1 (person): Huhuma, Dingir-gabar, E-gaba-gire, A-geštin-su, E-gab-e, [...]-hu?-mi?-[...], [... remainder broken ...]
Economy
(First copy) [... For the goddess Inanna, Enannatum,] ruler of Lagash, fashioned KIB-objects for her, (and) for the Eanna he declared (dedicated) them to her. (Second copy, duplicate) [... the ruler] of Lagash fashioned KIB-objects for her, (and) for the Eanna he declared (dedicated) them to her.
Writing & LiteratureReligion & Myth
(Obverse) ... the prayer gathered in the heart which was spoken to him, which came to him — Giššakidu, the beloved shepherd, the beloved friend of Ištaran, the mighty ruler of Enlil, the king called by name by Inanna, constructed that (boundary) levee. (Reverse uninscribed/eroded)
Writing & LiteratureReligion & Myth
[When En]lil [truly] called him, and joined for him the en-ship together with the kingship, in Uruk he exercises the en-ship, in Ur he exercises the kingship — Lugal-ki[gine]-du[du], with great [joy ...] (remainder broken)
Writing & LiteratureReligion & Myth
For Enlil, king of all the lands, Lugal-kigine-[dudu] — when Enlil spoke truly to him (i.e., truly summoned him), and joined for him the en-ship [together with] the kingship — in [Uruk] [the en-ship (he exercised)]; [for his life] [he] dedicated (this vessel) [to him].
Writing & LiteratureReligion & Myth
For Enlil, king of all the lands — for Lugal-kigine-dudu: when Enlil truly summoned him (called to him with a faithful voice), and the lordship (en-ship) together with the kingship he combined for him — in Uruk the lordship he exercises, and in Ur the kingship he exercises. Lugal-kigi[ne-dudu ...] (the text breaks off here; the remainder of the dedication is lost on this exemplar)
Writing & LiteratureReligion & Myth
(beginning lost) [...] may he (Enlil) look upon me [favorably]; the good fate (which the gods have decreed for me) — may they never alter it for me. May I forever be the foremost shepherd, standing at the head. Forever may [I be so]. For his life, to Enlil, his beloved king, he dedicated [this vessel].
Writing & LiteratureReligion & Myth
(Beginning lost) [... lumaḫ-priest of the goddess] Nisaba, fed wholesome milk by Ninhursag, man of (the god) Mes-sanga-unug, attendant raised [by] Ningirim, the mistress of Uruk, chief steward of the gods — when Enlil, king of all the lands, (to) Lugalzagesi [gave the kingship of the Land ... (text breaks off)]
Writing & LiteratureReligion & Myth
(vessel fragment; beginnings of all lines lost) [...] of [...], the exalted [...], for the [...]s, [when] Enlil, king of all the lands, to Lugalzagesi the [king]ship of the Land had [gi]ven, [and the eyes(?)] of the Land [he had directed toward him] ...
Writing & LiteratureReligion & Myth
(Break) [... (Enlil, king of all the lands,) ...] the eyes of the land he directed toward him, all the foreign lands at his feet he placed, and from sunrise (the east) [to sunset (the west) he made them submit to him ...] (Break) ... [the s]ea(?) [...] king(?) [...] (Break)
Writing & LiteratureReligion & Myth
[nom]inated by name by the god Utu, chief minister of the god Suen — (before whom) the throne-holders of Sumer (and) the rulers of all the lands at Uru[k submitted to his princely authority] — ... [(the god Enlil,)] king of all the lands, to An, his beloved father, [may he speak his prayer(?)] [...] (remainder broken)
Writing & LiteratureReligion & Myth
(Break) [... looked] upon [truly] by [An], king of all the lands; chief ruler for [the god] Enlil; given wisdom by [the god] En[ki]; (Break) he raised [the head of Ur heavenward] (lit. "he raised up"); Larsa, the beloved city of Utu, he made rise in jubilation — he [...] (text breaks off)
Writing & LiteratureReligion & Myth
(Fragment of a longer titulary and dedication; preserved portion:) grand ruler (ensi) of [the god En]lil, given [wisdom by the god Enki], [... the nation, in joy,] made merry under him, the sovereigns (lit. 'thrones') of Sumer (and) the rulers of all the lands at Uruk [bowed down] to the divine powers of prince[ship] [...] (remainder lost)
Writing & LiteratureReligion & Myth
(beginning broken) [... beloved of the god Utu(?)] ... [...] with rejoicing [made merry] under him, [Umma], verily raised [its] horn [aloft]. (gap — intervening text lost) May the Land upon a fair place look, under me! The good fate which [they (An and Enlil)] have de[termined for me ...] (remainder broken)
Writing & LiteratureReligion & Myth
(beginning broken) [... he] set [it (all the lands at his feet)], from [the] rising of the sun (the east) to the setting of the sun (the west), he made (them) subject to him. At that time, [from the] Sea (the [Lower] Sea), from the [lower(?)] ..., Umma, the city [...], [of the god] Šara [...] (remainder broken)
Writing & LiteratureReligion & Myth
(beginning broken) [For Enlil, king of all the] lands(?), [Lugal]zagesi, king of Uruk, king of the Land [(kalam)], [išib-priest] of An, [...] (Break) at (his) feet [he laid the foreign lands(?)], he directed straight [the eyes of the Land toward him(?)], [from] the rising of the sun [...], [to] the setting of the sun [...], [En-... (Enlil? / lord ...)] (remainder broken)
Writing & LiteratureReligion & Myth
[... (cared for by the goddess Nin)]girima, mistress of Uruk, chief steward for the [god]s, [... En]lil ... [...] Larsa, the beloved city of Utu, [raised a cry of] jubilation.
Writing & LiteratureReligion & Myth
(Beginning broken) [...] [...] ... (trace) [...]-... (trace) [...] ... (trace) [...] ... (trace) ... [...] 70 (units of) barley [...] from the ...-goods, delivered [...] 2 shekels of silver, 2 (gur) 2 barig of barley, received (by the lid₂-ga measure), [n] + 10 [...] ...-goods [...] (Remainder broken)
Writing & LiteratureReligion & Myth
6 minas of refined copper (arudu-copper), in order to purchase silver, Dadulul, the merchant, to Umma took. Baranamtara, the wife of Lugalanda, the ruler (ensi) of Lagash, from the palace weighed it out to him. (Year) 6.
Economy
72 minas of aruda-copper — the aruda-copper is (the price) of barley; 20 minas — the aruda-copper is (the price) of cedar (resin); 96 minas — the aruda-copper is (the price) of scented oil; 26 minas — the aruda-copper is (the price) of emmer. (This is) the merchandise which from the land of Dilmun Ur-Enki, the merchant, to Dim-tur, the wife of the governor, brought. (Year/instance:) 1.
Economy
5 tar-fish, 780 suhur-carp, 60 kimu-fish, 300 gir-fish of fresh water: (from) Nesag; 120 ubi-fish: (from) Lugal-šala-tuku. They are sea fishermen. It is fish for the (offering) table. In the month of 'sheep-plucking in the pen' they brought (it). En-iggal, the overseer, into the Women's House (É-munus) brought it in. 4th (year).
Economy
2 talents of split adartun-fish, 5 bundles of agargara-fish (spawn, packed in rushes) — U-du, the fisherman of the sweet waters, in the month of the wool distribution brought (them). En-iggal, the overseer, into the storehouse delivered (them). (For) Bara-namtara, wife of Lugal-anda, ruler of Lagash. 4th (year).
Economy
7 ewes, 3 female nim(?)-animals, 4 rams — sheep, the private property of Nin-tur. Lugal-nigani, the shepherd, the drover of Ka'a, took (them) out: 2 (units/head marked).
Economy
1 stunted goat, as a masdaria-offering of the wife of the temple-administrator (sanga) of the god Nindara — to Baranamtara, in the month of the festival of malt-eating of (the goddess) Nanše, she delivered it. Enku, the animal-fattener, carried it off. (Year) 2.
Economy
3 ewes, 7 female sheep — issued(?), 12 male lambs — issued(?), which came out from Lul-gu; they are lambs. At the plucking of the full-grown sheep, En-iggal, the overseer, set (them) aside. Ur-du, the chief herdsman, returned (them) into his own hand (i.e. took them back into his charge). It was not entered on the broad tablet; the deficit was not deducted from it. 3rd (year).
Economy
168 gur (measured by) the gur-saggal standard of barley, 98 (gur) of white emmer: total: 266 gur (by) the gur-saggal standard. Barley, the property of En-entar-zi, ruler (ensi) of Lagaš. Lugal-pirig-tur, the temple administrator (sanga), had (it) threshed. (Year) 3.
Economy
Deficit: 1 jar of pig-fat (lard) — Aḫi-li-nutil. 10 sila of oil — Nin-uma, mother of E-gissubi. 5 sila of oil — Nin-šešda, (consigned) to Ur-igi-ama the overseer. E-gissubi charged it to his account. (Year) 4.
Economy
12 jars (and) 6 sila of pig-fat (lard): U'u. 1 jar (and) 2(?) sila: Gan-Baba. 1 (jar): Nin-asu. 1 (jar): Gissu. 1 (jar): Dam-da-nusa. Ur-igi-amaše, the overseer (nu-banda), in the house of the surveyor (the "man of the long rope") poured (it) out. (reverse / colophon) Uru-inimgina (Uru-KA-gina), king of Lagash — (year) 5.
Economy
1 gur 2 barig 4 ban₂ of barley (by the gur-saggal measure), barley threshed with the sledge, of the field Dur-re-gar-ra; 1 barig 2 ban₂ of barley threshed with the sledge — it is of the field U-du-ku. En-iggal, the overseer, in the month "Sheep-for-barley of Ningirsu," from the courtyard storehouse delivered it to him. 3rd (year).
Economy
3 ban₂ of barley — the wife of Il₂, the fisherman; Lu-dun-a, Amar-[…]-da, Ur-[…]; [its] commissioner (maškim). 1 ban₂ of barley — provisions (níg-gu₇-a): Amar-gu₄; its overseer (ugula) has consumed (it); Šul-bi; [its] commissioner (maškim). 6 (units).
Economy
3 male heads (male slaves), they belong to the sanga (temple administrator); from Ibi'a Imaba'a [...] 1 1/2 mana of silver, 4 mana of silver, silver of the ašda; Lu-[x], En-[...], I-ḫulḫula, Ur-šul the governor (ensi), Geš-kulab — it is at his disposal (an-da-gal₂).
Economy
2 eše minus 1 iku of field — Me-su; 1 eše — Nigar; 2 eše 2 (iku) — Ur-sag-utu; 1 bur — ...-tir; [n] minus 1 iku — Me-su; ... [field], 2 1/2 iku of field; ... ... ... (the remaining signs are illegible) (Reverse: surface eroded; a few faint wedges survive in the upper part, no continuous text recoverable.)
Economy
20 furrow-rows (of onions); mountain-onions (szum2 kur); [...]-elum; [10] onions(?) [...]; 35(?) crushed onions (szum2-gaz); 5 szum-sikil ("pure/white onion"); 10 onions of the tu-type; 80 (1 gesz2 20) furrow-rows of onions; sag-ki (heading / "foremost" entry).
Economy
1 gur of barley (?) Lugal-igi-du. 3 barig — for Me-ki-bi. 2 gur (?) — DU-HA-A-pa-e₃, the gala-priest. 2 gur 2 barig — the herald (nimgir).
Economy
[1 barig (of barley):] A-ka-du [1 barig:] E-dam-si DIB(?) — silver ... 1 barig: Lugal-ennun 1 barig: Ur-naru[a] Sag-zi, the overseer of the household 1 barig: Bulani, brother of Ki-e(?) (reverse: uninscribed / surface effaced)
Economy
1 cowhide, (from/by) Šu-agiam(?), Lu-na-[nam], [...] the house of [...], delivered. Month: Šu-gar. (In the governorship of) Mes-ki-gal[a], governor (ensi) of Adab.
Economy
56 (lit. 60 less 4) gu-loads of ninni-reed; 10 zibatum, LAGAB(-measure); Ur-gu; (for) the city wall — deliv[ery]. Month: A[ki]ti. Mes-kigal[la], governor of Adab, from the cedar mountain [recei]ved.
Economy
35 male workers, second (grade) — Di-[Utu]; 30 [...]; 31 — Amar-šuba; 26 — Ur-ildu; 36 — [...]-zi; [21] — Ur-saman, the vizier (sukkal); 36 — A-zu-zu. Total: 215 male workers, second (grade).
Economy
[...] field(?) [...] the mound of Lagaš [...] 3 (units) — its name/year [...] field beside the woodland (da-tir) [...] — its name/year 1 field (unit) DA 2 (units) — its name/year 1 field (unit) [...] 2 (units) — its name/year 1 ENGUR(?) BI, the house(hold) 5 gur of barley, head (capital?) measure 1 (unit): Šeš-pa'e, the plowman [...] 1 (unit): NI-NUN-bi 1 (unit): Gu-ni-DU [...] DU
Economy
[... gur(?)] of barley — [PN], the overseer (nu-banda); 2 barig of barley — Gešgal-ni; 3 barig of barley — the scribe; 5 ban of barley — Bara-sag-nudi. The palace — delivered(?) — the chief(?). Month 5. (Reverse: uninscribed)
Economy
1 barig 4 ban₂ of barley — the overseer (nu-banda₃); 2 barig of barley — the scribe; 1 barig of barley — Bara-sag-nudi; 1 barig of barley — Ur-nirah; 4 ban₂ of barley — the fisherman.
Economy
[...] 2 kid(?) ..., Nin-mu; 5 — Gan-li-si; 4 — Za-mu; 60 minus 2 (= 58) — A-[...]; Mi-na-ni; [x] — Nin-sa; [...] [...] [...] 2 — Na-na; 1 — Nin-ki. Total: 5 gur of barley, 1 [...]; 13 (gur) — year; month 5.
Economy
1 gur of barley — Gan-saman(x); 1 gur 1 barig — Nin-DU; 1 gur — Ama-tir; 1 gur — Ama-ki; 1 gur — Ama-da; 1 gur — Nin-naga; 1 gur — Maš-tur; 1 gur — Nin-muda; (Break) [... the] overseer (nu-banda); [...] Mi-na-ni.
Economy
[n] gur of flour — month(s): 11. 2 barig 4 ban2 — month(s): 3. 3 gur less 1 barig 2 ban2 — month(s): 1. [Flour] held in reserve. Šubur. (Reverse: uninscribed / surface eroded.)
Economy
[...] gur [...] ... [1 (gur)] Gan-saman [1 (gur)] Nin-nigna [1 (gur)] Maš-tur 1 (gur) Nin-mu-dib 1 (gur) Ama-ki 1 (gur) Ama-da 1 (gur) Nin-KA 1 (gur) Ama-tir-ku 2 barig 4 ban₂ Nin-abba 8 months, 2 years.
Economy