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

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Balanced account

CREATED/PUBLISHED
2200-1900bc

NOTES
This tablet has been heavily damaged on the reverse. The tablet begins with 4 lines stating the receipt of barley, with the total, "29 se gur" (29 gur of barley) on line 5. Line 6, "sa-bi-ta", means the following amounts are expanded from the total of 29 gur. The five expenditures add up to 29, leaving a balanced account

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
4 ½ cm wide x 9 cm high.

LANGUAGE
Sumerian

CALL NUMBER
No. 32

PART OF
Cuneiform Tablet Collection

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

DIGITAL ID
amcune cf0032 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.amed/amcune.cf0032
amcune cp0032 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.amed/amcune.cp0032
amcune cs0032 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.amed/amcune.cs0032

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