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Period |
Language |
Provenance |
Object |
Genre |
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Ur III
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Sumerian
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Irisaĝrig |
Tablet |
Messenger Text
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Date |
Dates Referenced |
Measurements |
Seal |
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IS02 - 10 - 19 |
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66×46
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N |
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Owner |
Museum No. |
Accession No. |
Excavation No. |
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Timeline Auctions (auction house), Brentwood, United Kingdom
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Author of Transliteration
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| Transliteration of text | 2013 | Owen, D.I. ( Nisaba 15/2 0854 ) | | Revision of text | 2013 | Molina, M. ( BDTNS ) |
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Remarks
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http://www.collector-antiquities.com/general-information/cuneiform-tablets.html
«The tablets shown in the photos in this section, placed here between 2006 and 2009, are in private collections in various countries and are not offered for sale.
Most, apart from just a few which are in my own collection, were sent to me many years ago to take better photographs to aid reading of them. I placed these photos here to illustrate the types of tablet which were on the market at this time when the cuneiform reading service was launched. We very much encourage collectors to have their tablets read and to share them with academic resources. I thought that by showing how very interesting such tablets can be, this would encourage collectors to have their tablets read.»
[WEB]
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http://www.collector-antiquities.com/400/:
19.16.M1. (N):
«A rare and extremely interesting piece. A “messenger text” which is a cuneiform tablet which is a voucher for rations to be collected at way station during a journey. State employees were entitled to receive provisions in the course of their travels on the job, and provisions were supplied at the way stations or rest houses of the Ur III state road system. These “messenger texts” apparently served as vouchers for the receipt of food and drink at such rest houses (information courtesy Miguel Civil). At the end of each month the vouchers were collected and put in a sack, which was sealed with a clay tag inscribed with the total quantities of provisions dispensed, summed up on the basis of the vouchers; the sack of tablets was sent back to central administration at the provincial capital, where records were stored. This one is a record of distributions to sukkals, court messengers/officials. (Sukkals regularly travelled apparently pretty far and wide, carrying out the business of the royal court, and in this type of document they receive the types of food that were the standard fare: beer and bread, stew or porridge, cuts of meat and fish, often dried fish, and oil). It specifies amounts of stew or porridge , cuts of meat and in some instances also fish, for six named royal messengers: including these: Laqipum, chamberlain; Bululu, equerry; [?]-nis overseer of herds; Nur-sin..E2[?].
Dated to the second year of the King Ibbi- Suen. mu us2-sa di-bi2-dsuen lugal = year after the year: Ibbi-Suen is king. He was the last king of the Third Dynasty of Ur. (2028-2004).
(...)
Intact but some salt accretion on the reverse.
66mm x 46mm.»
[M. Molina]
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Auctioned in 2015/12 at Timeline Auctions (see picture). Formery in a private collection in Tallinn, Estonia (Owen, Nisaba 15/2).
[M. Molina]
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1
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2 ma-la-ku udu
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2
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5 sila3 tu7
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3
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I-pa2-li2-is nu-banda3 lu2-/kin-gi4-a lugal
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4
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1 sila3 tu7 1 ku6
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5
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Nu-ur2-dSuen lu2-kin-gi4-/a lugal
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6
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u4 BAD3.ANki-še3 ba-e-re-ša-/a
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7
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1 sila3 tu7 1 ku6
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8
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Šu-dEn-lil2 lu2-kin-gi4-a lugal
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9
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u4 BAD3.ANki-ta
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r. 1
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ki lugal-še3 ba-gen-na-a
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2
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1 ma-la-ku udu
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3
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3 sila3 tu7 2 ku6
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4
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La-qi3-pu-um sagi / lu2-kin-gi4-a lugal
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5
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u4 sizkur2 lugal-še3 im-/gen-na-a
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6
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1 sila3 tu7 1 ku6
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7
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Bu-lu-lu šuš3
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8
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u4 anšekunga2 zi-gu5-um im-/gen-na-a
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9
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zi-ga iti nig2-e-ga
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lo.ed. 1
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mu en dInanna Unuki-g[a] / [m]aš2-e i3-pa3
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le.ed. 1
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u4 19-kam
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