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~2027 BCE·

Ur III · Neo-Sumerian

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Kress 224

10 sheep, gun-tribute, from (the account of) Nin-ga; 3 sheep, 1 goat — Ku-li(?); […] … […] […] […] Month: "Bricks-placed-in-the-mould"(?), Year after: "Ibbi-Suen (became) king."

Economy

~2017 BCE·Old BabylonianOur engine

TLB 05, 10

1 naḫbatum (leather bag/pouch), royal ka-kara4 (leather strap/gear) — sheep hide, ram(?)-hide, its black (portion): 9; its cord/sinew: 5 shekels. 8 shoes (with) hoof-fittings(?), royal ka-kara4, 1 (or) 2 each. Ox hide, its tanning-agent (u2-ḫab2): 5 shekels. Billy-goat hide, its black (portion): 2/3. 3 baskets of gug2-cake (bread); its bitumen: 5 sila. For the offering of the granary. Via Ur-alla and Iddin-Adad, the cook; overseer: Anaḫ-ili. Day [n]. Month: NE-NE-gar. Year: Išbi-Erra, the king, defeated Šimaški and Elam. Copy (gaba-ri).

Economy

~1984 BCE·Old BabylonianOur engine

JANES 18, 44 08

2 ban₂ 7 sila₃ of bread (made) of dabin-flour, festival provisions for the month Gu'sisu (month II), which are on hand with A-zida; in the month NE-NE-gar (Abu, month V) it is to be delivered. Month: Gu'sisu. Year: Šu-ilišu (is) king. A-zida, son of Ur-nigar.

Economy

~1984 BCE·Old BabylonianOur engine

JANES 18, 45 10

6 sila of bread — of/for the AB[…] (temple? household?), food allotment (šuku) of the [...]-people; month: NE.[NE]-gar (Abu), day 11, [...] [...] received(?) [...] Year: Šu-ilišu the king built the wall (called) Rīm-Ištar.

Economy

~1974 BCE·Old BabylonianOur engine

JANES 18, 48 21

4 sila of honeyed flour, [n] sila of dates (in) a burzi-bowl — delivery; from the temple of Enlil [En]um-Suen has received. Month: Še-sag-ku (harvest month). Year: Iddin-Dagan the king — Matum-niatum, his daughter, the king of Anšan married her. Enum-Suen, the scribe.

Economy

~1974 BCE·Old BabylonianOur engine

JANES 18, 48 24

4 sheep, cooked (al-še₆), (from/for) Inim-Enlila, [in] Nippur. [De]livery. For ... meat. [...] the house of Gissu(?) [...] [Month:] Apin-du'a (eighth month), [...] day 12. [Year:] "Iddin-Dagan the king elevated the lumaḫ-priest of [the goddess] Nin-Isina."

Economy

~1974 BCE·Old BabylonianOur engine

JANES 18, 49 25

7 sheep, cooked (boiled), regular offerings (sá-du₁₁) of Enlil and Ninlil. Delivery, for the meat-house (é-uzu), from the É-gissu; sealed tablet of the šatammu-officials. Month: Gan-gan-è (month IX), day 26, year: Iddin-Dagan the king elevated (installed) the lumaḫ-priest of Nin-Isina.

Economy·Religion & Myth

~1974 BCE·Old BabylonianOur engine

JANES 18, 49 26

9 sheep, cooked; [...] x [...] within Nippur. From (the household of) É-gissu: delivery. Month: gan-gan-e₃ (month IX). Year: Iddin-Dagan the king elevated the lumaḫ-priest of Nin-Isina.

Economy

~1974 BCE·Old BabylonianOur engine

JANES 18, 49 27

5 rams, regular offering(s) (for) Enlil and Ninlil, within Nippur; deliv[ery] for the é-uzu ("meat house"); sealed tablet of the šatam-officials. The 9th day (lit. "day ten minus one"), month: Ab-è (month X), year: Iddin-Dagan the king fashioned the great emblem for Nin-Isina.

Economy

~1974 BCE·Old BabylonianOur engine

JANES 18, 50 29

6 rams — the 26th day; 3 rams — the 28th day: regular offerings (sattukku) of Enlil and Ninlil, in Nippur; from the E-gissu ("House of the Shade") delivery to the <house> of meat (slaughterhouse). Sealed by the šatammu-officials. Month: Ab-e (10th month, Nippur calendar). Year: Iddin-Dagan, the king, fashioned a great emblem for Ninisina.

Economy·Religion & Myth

~1973 BCE·Old BabylonianOur engine

JANES 18, 48 23

5 sila of ... flour, provision of the king (šuku lugal), delivery (mu-kux) — the house(?) of Enlil. Enum-Suen received (it). Month: Še-sag-ku ("harvest," month XII). Year after (the year) Iddin-Dagan the king fashioned the throne of the Dubla-maḫ ... [...] for him/her. Enum-Suen, the scribe.

Economy

~1950 BCE·Old BabylonianOur engine

JANES 18, 41 02

31 loaves of bread, goods for transport (níg-ki-lah), (for/of) Anamu; available with [...]; [...] (break) Month: "Sowing" (Šu-numuna). Year: "The wall (named) 'Eštar-tāram-Išbi-Erra' ('Ištar-loves-Išbi-Erra') was built." [...]-ane, the perfumer (oil-presser) of Enlil.

Economy

~1950 BCE·Old BabylonianOur engine

JANES 18, 42 04

[...] oil [...] ... 3 [...] cow(s)(?) (For) Lu-damu: give (it) to him! (šum-mu-na-ab-[...]) Month: Gusisu (Month II). Year: the nin-dingir priestess of (the god) Lugal-Erra was installed. Seal inscription: Išbi-Erra, mighty king, king of his land — Abuni, the steward, son of Nūr-ilī, (is) your servant.

Economy

~1950 BCE·Old BabylonianOur engine

JANES 18, 44 06

3 ban of bread (made of) fine <flour>, 1 barig of oil-bread, (for) the offering of the NE-NE-gar festival; conveyor (giri): Ša-mu(?), the cupbearer; seal of Abuni. Month: NE-NE-gar, Year: "The nin-dingir priestess of (the god) Lugal-Erra was installed." (Seal inscription:) Išbi-Erra, mighty king, king of his land — Abuni, the steward, son of Nur-ili, (is) your servant.

Economy

~1950 BCE·Old BabylonianOur engine

JANES 18, 46 13

90 gur of bread. Therefrom: 4 gur of bread (of) flour, 2 barig 5 ban 4 sila of bread [...], from the wages of the day(s) ... [...]; ... 7 sila of bread [...], ... poured out(?) ... house of [...]; 3 ban 8 sila of bread ... (for) the messenger(s); [...] Gud-ili(?); [...] hire/wages(?); [...]-ra; [...] bread ...; delivery. 1 [...] ...(?) Month: Gusisu (2nd month of the Nippur calendar).

Economy

~1950 BCE·Old BabylonianOur engine

JANES 18, 46 15

(obverse) 365 (6 sixties 5), 4 [...] 1 oil-bread [...] [...] per garment (tug2-ta), [... two illegible signs] 3 ban (c. 30 liters) of apples(?), ... bread, counted(?), 6 (gur) 9 sila of bread, 1 barig 1 sila (c. 61 liters) of oil-bread, 6 sila of flour each(?), (for/of) Sag-Nanna, (and) Ennum-Suen(?). ... [three illegible signs] [...] Year: [...] (year-name broken)

Economy

~1950 BCE·Old BabylonianOur engine

JANES 18, 48 19

1 [...] 12 [...] from ... [...] ... [...] disbursed(?) [...] copy of [...] ... [...] seal of ...-[...] month: [...] [year: ...] Išbi-Erra, king of [his] land. Lu-Nin-[...], scribe [...]

Economy

~1950 BCE·Old BabylonianOur engine

JANES 18, 48 20

3 (units of) bread [...] barley rations ... [...] (two signs illegible) additional [...] from Sag-[...] [...] (Break) he [rec]eived. Month: kin-Inanna (VI). Year: the king of Anshan took (in marriage) the daughter of the king [...] (year name of Iddin-Dagan of Isin).

Economy

~1950 BCE·Old BabylonianOur engine

JANES 18, 48 22

4 loaves of shrine bread, as the barley ration for the released female worker(s), were withdrawn (expended) from Inim-Nanna. Sealed tablet of Lu-Ninšubur. Month: "Work of Inanna" (kin-Inanna). Year: "The nin-dingir priestess of Iškur was chosen by means of the omen-kid."

Economy

~1900 BCE·Old AssyrianRIAo

Aminu 2001

(1) Rībam-ilī, scribe, servant of Aminu.

Economy

~1900 BCE·Old AssyrianOur engine

RA 059, 036 no. 15

[Mannum]-kī-Ištar [...] (and) [Enna-Su]en, son of Šu-Anum: [for] these [ma]tters the [kārum of Waḫ]šušana, [small and great], gave us (as arbitrators/witnesses), [and ...]

Law

~1900 BCE·Old BabylonianRIAo

Šamši-Adad I 2003

(1) Šamšī-[Adad (I)], appointee of the god Enlil, vice-regent of the god Aššur: Amaduga, his female servant.

Economy

~1900 BCE·Old BabylonianRIAo

Šamši-Adad I 2004

(1) Šamšī-[Adad (I)], appointee of [the god Enlil], vice-regent of the god [Aššur]: [Ya]matti-[El, his] servant.

Economy

~1900 BCE·Old BabylonianRIAo

Šamši-Adad I 2005

(1) Šamšī-[Adad (I)], appointee of the god [Enlil], vice-regent of the god Aššur: Yaḫuzānum, son of Zamāmu, his servant.

Economy

~1900 BCE·Old BabylonianRIAo

Šamši-Adad I 2006

(1) Šamšī-[Adad (I)], strong king. Ammī-iluna, son of Irra-i[...], his servant.

Economy

~1900 BCE·Old BabylonianRIAo

Šamši-Adad I 2007

(1) Yattiya, son of Samsī-malik, servant of Šamšī-Adad (I).

Economy

~1900 BCE·Old BabylonianRIAo

Šamši-Adad I 2008

(1) [Ya]matti-[El], son of Ḫata ..., servant of [Ša]mšī-Ad[ad (I)].

Economy

~1900 BCE·Old BabylonianRIAo

Šamši-Adad I 2009

(1) Tarim-š[akim], servant of Šamšī-[Adad (I)].

Economy

~1900 BCE·Old BabylonianRIAo

Šamši-Adad I 2010

(1) Umannisuṭa, son of Idin-[...], servant of Šamšī-[Adad (I)].

Economy

~1900 BCE·Old BabylonianRIAo

Šamši-Adad I 2011

(1) Adad-saga, son of Ḫaziya, servant of Šamšī-[Adad (I)].

Economy

~1900 BCE·Old BabylonianRIAo

Šamši-Adad I 2012

(1) [M]ašiya, son of Šalim-[...], servant of Šam[šī-Adad (I)].

Economy

~1900 BCE·Old BabylonianRIAo

Šamši-Adad I 2013

(1) Lu-Ninsianna, son of ..., servant of Šamšī-Adad (I).

Economy

~1900 BCE·Old BabylonianRIAo

Šamši-Adad I 2014

(1) [Zi]mrī-ḫammu, [son of S]umu-ammim, servant of Šamšī-Adad (I).

Economy

~1900 BCE·Old BabylonianRIAo

Šamši-Adad I 2015

(1) D[agān-...], son of ...[...], servant of Šamšī-Ad[ad (I)].

Economy

~1900 BCE·Old BabylonianRIAo

Šamši-Adad I 2016

(1) Ṣurri-Adad, [son of Z]idriya, [servant of] Šamšī-Adad (I).

Economy

~1900 BCE·Old BabylonianRIAo

Šamši-Adad I 2017 / CDLI Seals 009443

(1) Ibāl-eraḫ, son of Kiabkurānu, servant of Šamšī-Adad (I).

Economy

~1900 BCE·Old BabylonianRIAo

Šamši-Adad I 2018

(1) Laḫar-abī, the scribe, son of Kakisum, servant of Šamšī-Adad (I).

Economy

~1900 BCE·Old BabylonianRIAo

Šamši-Adad I 2019

(1) Sîn-iqīšam, son of Būr-Adad, servant of Šamšī-Adad (I).

Economy

~1900 BCE·Old BabylonianRIAo

Šamši-Adad I 2020 / CDLI Seals 008051

(1) Rīš-ilu, son of Aduanniam, servant of Šamšī-Adad (I).

Economy

~1900 BCE·Old BabylonianRIAo

Šamši-Adad I 2021

(1) Pazaya, son of Aḫi-šakim, servant of Šamšī-Adad (I).

Economy

~1900 BCE·Old BabylonianRIAo

Šamši-Adad I 2022

(1) Kunnat[um], son of Mezi..., servant of Šamšī-Adad (I).

Economy

~1900 BCE·Old BabylonianRIAo

Šamši-Adad I 2023

(1) Samiya, son of Ḫani-m[alik], servant of Šamš[ī-Adad (I)].

Economy

~1900 BCE·Old AssyrianRIAo

Sargon I 1 / CDLI Seals 003474

(1) The divine Sargon (I), vice-regent of the god Aššur, son of Ikūnum, vice-regent of the god Aššur.

Economy

~1822 BCE·Old BabylonianOur engine

SAOC 44, 67

1 shekel of silver — as interest, 1/6 shekel and 6 grains (per shekel) will be added. From Suen, Anne-babdu received it. In the month of Bricks (Simanu) it is to be repaid. Before Suen-rabi; before Ur-dukuga. Month: NE-NE-gar (Abu). Year: Rim-Sin the king built the temple of Enki in Ur.

Law

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianOur engine

Akkadica 134/1 §2.9b

(obverse) 14 [...] 254 (4 sixties + 14?) [...] [...]-Suen(?) [...]-Suen(?) Erra-[...] [...] Yada'atum(?) [...] (Break) [...] 6 gur [...] 1 gur [...] Zakuri(?) [...] 6 gur [...] Zakuri(?)

Economy

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianOur engine

AOAT 440, 197-198 BM 97939

18 plow-teams (iniātum) — the registration (talpittu). 2 barig of barley: the holder of the harbu-plow. 2 ban 4 sila of flour: their food ration. 3 ban 3 sila of barley: fodder for the rear ox(en). 1 ban 5 sila of barley: for the goats.

Economy

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianOur engine

AOAT 440, 199-200 BM 97938

1 barig, 1 ban, 2 sila of barley: wages of 6 men, breakers [of clods]; 1 barig, 2 ban, 4 sila of barley: wages of 12 men, gatherer(s) of clods; 2 ban, 4 sila of barley: wages of 2 men who heaped up the dike. Total: 3 barig of barley, expended (zi-ga).

Economy

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianOur engine

CDLI Literary 000365, ex. 048

Young man, free-born son, ... [in] the mountain, what [...]? Utu, let me speak a word to you — give [your] ear to my word! Let me greet you — may you pay heed to it! In my city a man dies, and the heart is stricken; a man perishes, and [my] heart [is heavy]. I craned my neck over the city wall: corpses floating on the water ... [made the river] overflow [...]. And I too ... [...] — shall it be so for me? [Thus] it shall be. The tallest man ... [cannot stretch to heaven ...] (remainder broken)

Religion & Myth·Daily Life

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianOur engine

CDLI Literary 000365, ex. 053

(Beginning broken) 1. "[... if today you are going to] enter [the mountains ...], 2. [...] youthful Utu should [know about it from us]. 3. [...] the decisions concerning [the mountains are Utu's business]; 4. the decisions concerning [the mountains] of felled cedar are youthful Utu's — Utu should know about it from us." 5. [Then] Gilgamesh took hold of a white kid; 6. he clasped [a brown] kid, a sacrificial offering, [to his breast]; 7. [in his hand] he held the holy staff before his nose, 8. as he spoke to [Utu of heaven]: 9. "[Utu, I am going to] enter [the mountains] — [be my] helper! 10. […

Religion & Myth·Daily Life

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianOur engine

CDLI Literary 000365, ex. 058

1. [...] he set [...] toward [...] 2. [By the life of] my own mother, divine [Nin]sun(?), and my [father], holy Lugal[banda]! 3. May I [become again(?)] as if slumbering in wonder(?) on the lap of my own mother Ninsun. 4. For a [second] time he indeed said it to him: 5. By the life of my own mother Ninsun and my [father(?)], holy Lugalbanda! 6. Whether he be a [hu]man, whether he be known(?), whether he be a god [...], 7. my steps that I have set toward the mountains I shall not set back toward the city! 8. The faithful slave, who would soothe(?), who makes life seem sweet, 9. answered his mas…

Religion & Myth·Daily Life

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