Tablet: A Receipt for a Slaughtered Kid
Tablet: A Receipt for a Slaughtered Kid
Place of OriginSumeria
DateNeo-Sumerian (Ur III), fourth year of the reign of King Amar-Sin, 2024 BCE
DimensionsH: 1 in. (2.5 cm); W: 7/8 in. (2.2 cm); Depth: 7/16 in. (1.1 cm)
MediumEarthenware with impressed inscription
ClassificationUtilitarian Objects
Credit LineGift of Carl Spitzer
Object number
1932.34
Not on View
Collections
Published References- Decorative Arts
Kang, S.T., Sumerian Economic Texts from the Drehem Archive, Urbana, 1972, pp. 89-113.
Van der Meiroop, Marc, "Cuneiform Tablets from The Toledo Museum of Art," Revue d'Assyriologie, no. 1, 1985, p. 18, repr. p. 27.
Label TextTranslation: 1 ewe-lamb...slaughtered day 24...in the Tummal...from En-dingir-mu...Shulgi-urumu...received...month 1...the year after that in which the...throne was built
Late 6th century BCE
586 BCE, 18th Year of King Nebechadnezzar
Neo-Babylonian period
Third Dynasty of Ur (about 2112-2000 BCE)
Ur III, year 1 of King Amar-Sin of Ur (2046-2038 BCE)
Ur III (about 2100-2000 BCE), Year 7 of King Amar-Sin
Ur III, 6th year of King Amar-Sin of Ur (2046-2038 BCE)
2037 BCE, 1st year of King Shu-Sin (2037-2029 BCE), Third Dynasty of Ur (about 2112-2000 BCE)
about 1865 BCE, reign of Sin-kasid of Uruk, Old Babylonian Period (1894-1595 BCE)
2047 BCE, 47th Year of King Shulgi (2094-2047 BCE), Third Dynasty of Ur (about 2112-2000 BCE)
Membership
Become a TMA member today
Support TMA
Help support the TMA mission