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Cuneiform Tablets: From the Reign of Gudea of Lagash to Shalmanassar III

(Cuneiform tablet no. 13)

(Transcription of cuneiform tablet no. 13)

(Drawing of cuneiform tablet no. 13)

Disbursement of wages

CREATED/PUBLISHED
Amar-Suen, year 6 (2039 B.C.)

NOTES
This concerns the disbursement of wages to named supervisors (ugula) of day laborers. The subscript of the inscription states that wages were disbursed for a grand total of 656 day laborers "su-nigin 600 + 56 gurus-u4 1-sè / zi-ga-àm". The year date states: "mu damar-dEN.ZU lugal-e sa-as-ru-um-ki mu-hul" (the year Amar Suen, the king, sacked the city of Sasrum)

SUBJECT
Akkadian language--Texts.
Calah (Extinct city)
Cuneiform tablets.
Drehem (Extinct city)
Gods, Assyro-Babylonian.
Gods, Sumerian.
Gudea, of Lagash.
Iraq--Antiquities--Specimens.
Sumerian language--Texts.
Sumerians--Commerce.
Sumerians--Economic conditions.
Sumerians--Education.
Sumerians--Religion.
Sumerians--Rites and ceremonies.

RELATED NAMES
Collector: Minassian, Kirkor

MEDIUM
7 cm wide x 12 cm high.

LANGUAGE
Sumerian

CALL NUMBER
No. 13

PART OF
Cuneiform Tablet Collection

REPOSITORY
Library of Congress, African and Middle Eastern Division, Washington, D.C. 20540

DIGITAL ID
amcune cf0013 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.amed/amcune.cf0013
amcune cp0013 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.amed/amcune.cp0013
amcune cs0013 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.amed/amcune.cs0013

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