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Sumerian administrative clay tablet, Third Dynasty of Ur, Umma, ca. 2049-2044 BCE Bound Bound

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Third Dynasty of Ur, Umma, ca. 2049-2044 BCE
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Sumerian administrative tablet of baked clay, inscribed on both sides in cuneiform characters, recording the receipt of a barley delivery. With the impression of a Sumerian administrative seal. Originally from the collection of Eleanor Lowenstein The text reads that 1 royal gur of barley was received from a man named Ir in the Month RI (the fifth month in the calendar of the city of Umma), the year after the city of Urbillum was destroyed. This would be either 2049 or 2044 B.C. as this year formula was used for both these in the reigns of King Shugi and King Amar-Suen respectively. The seal impression reads "Ur-e-. son of Lu-Sharake," meaning "Man of Shara," which was the city god of Umma
  1. Sumerian administrative tablet of baked clay, inscribed on both sides in cuneiform characters, recording the receipt of a barley delivery. With the impression of a Sumerian administrative seal. Originally from the collection of Eleanor Lowenstein
  2. The text reads that 1 royal gur of barley was received from a man named Ir in the Month RI (the fifth month in the calendar of the city of Umma), the year after the city of Urbillum was destroyed. This would be either 2049 or 2044 B.C. as this year formula was used for both these in the reigns of King Shugi and King Amar-Suen respectively. The seal impression reads "Ur-e-. son of Lu-Sharake," meaning "Man of Shara," which was the city god of Umma
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