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Tablet: A Record of Transfer of Animals

Place of OriginSumer
Date2047 BCE, 47th Year of King Shulgi (2094-2047 BCE), Third Dynasty of Ur (about 2112-2000 BCE)
Dimensions2 3/8 × 1 5/8 × 7/8 in. (6.1 × 4.1 × 2.2 cm)
Mediumearthenware
ClassificationUtilitarian Objects
Credit LineMuseum Purchase
Object number
1913.499
Not on View
Collections
  • Decorative Arts
Published References

Langdon, S., "Miscellanea Assyriaca" in Babyloniaca: etudes de philologie Assyro-Babylonienne, 7, 1922-1923, pp. 74-75, n. 2.

Kang, S.T., Sumerian Economic Texts from the Drehem Archive, Urbana, 1972, pp. 73-75.

Van der Meiroop, Marc, "Cuneiform Tablets from The Toledo Museum of Art," Revue d'Assyriologie, no. 1, 1985, p. 17, repr. p. 22.

Label TextTranslation: Front: 1+ ox; 5 spotted oxen; 3 spotted oxen fit for plowing; 1 ox; 2 oxen fit for plowing; 2 spotted cows; 1 barley-fattened alum-sheep; 5 Subarian full-grown barley-fattened goats; 26 sheep; 9 fat-tailed sheep; 13 lambs; 2 fat-tailed ewes Rev: 12 full-grown goats; 8 goats; 1 wool(?) goats; 1 wool (?) kid; (as a) delivery (for) the king's (account) from Nasa; Ludingirra the son of Inim-Shara took in charge; month II; the year after the one in which Kimas was destroyed
2037 BCE, 1st year of King Shu-Sin (2037-2029 BCE), Third Dynasty of Ur (about 2112-2000 BCE)
2050 BCE, 44th Year of King Shulgi (2094-2047 BCE), Third Dynasty of Ur (about 2112-2000 BCE)
2041 BCE, 5th Year of King Amar-Sin (2046-2038 BCE), Third Dynasty or Ur (about 2112-2000 BCE)
2048 BCE, 46th Year of King Shulgi (2094-2047 BCE), Third Dynasty of Ur (about 2112-2000 BCE)
2049 BCE, 45th Year of King Shulgi (2094-2047 BCE), Third Dynasty of Ur (about 2112-2000 BCE)
2050 BCE, 44th Year of King Shulgi (2094-2047 BCE), Third Dynasty of Ur (about 2112-2000 BCE)
Unidentified
about 2350-2100 BCE
Unidentified
about 2350-2100 BCE
Unidentified
about 2350-2200 BCE
Unidentified
possibly about 2350-2150 BCE
Unidentified
about 1894-1595 BCE

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