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MM 1977:014 :: tablet

Object description

Sumerian administration document from the city PD = Puzri¸s-Dagan.“Livestock from Urkununna received by various individuals.”; Year account. Translation: Obv. I: 20 female kids, Nur-Adad received; 1 two-year-old ox, 8 two-year-old cows, 49 grass-fed sheep, 31 grass-fed ewes, 161 grass-fed full-grown goats, 31 lambs,for the bala service, Lugal-Utu received; 125 grass-fed sheep, 11 grass-fed full-grown goats, for E2.AB of the god Enlil, Lugal-azida, the ¯Sabra administrator, received; 259 grass-fed sheep, 244 grass-fed full-grown goats, 30 grass-fed she-goats, 7 lambs, 103 goats, for the bala service, Aradmu, the governor of the city of Girsu, received;

II: 2 two-year-old oxen, 29 two-year-old cows, for the bala service,¯Sama¸s-bani, the governor (of) the city of Sippar received; 15 grass-fed oxen, 20 three-year-old oxen, (for) a royal (votive) gift, 8 grass-fed oxen, 411 grass-fed sheep, 213 grass-fed full-grown goats, 81 lambs, for the regular offering to the temple of the god Ninsun of the city of Usuh, Imlik-Ea, the governor of the city of Marad, received; 420 grass-fed sheep, 43 grass-fed full-grown goats, for the regular offering to the goddess Inanna of the city of Uruk, Dayya, the ¯Sabra administrator, received; 10 grass-fed sheep,

III: 148 grass-fed full-grown goats, for the regular offering to the god Ninsun of the city of Uruk, ¯Su-Ea, the ¯Sabra administrator, received; 36 grass-fed full-grown goats, for the regular offering to the goddess Annun¾tum of the city of Uruk, Ur-I¸skur, the ¯Sabra administrator, received; 18 grass-fed oxen, 23 three-year-old oxen, for the field Im (of) Ur-¯Su-Suen, Amur-Suen, the ¯Sabra administrator, received; 654 grass-fed sheep, 20 grass-fed ewes, 1111 full-grown goats,58 breast lambs, 88 breast goats, Habaluge, the governor (of) the city of Adab, received;

Rev. IV: –

V: (total:) 124 mixed oxen (and) cows, 4364 mixed sheep (and) goats;

VI: Sealed by the men responsible for the nig2-dab5-ba, in the account(?), from Urkununna; From the month of the barley harvest (i), to the intercalary month of the festival of the god Mekigal (xiiII), that is 13 months; The year: ¯Su-Suen, the king of Ur, erected the grand stele of the god Enlil (and) of the goddess Ninlil. (¯SS 6)

Data elements
References (8)

Inventory number

MM 1977:014

Serie nummer

802

Object

tablet

Country - Findspot

Iraq : Asia

Place - Findspot

PD = Puzri¸s-Dagan

Material

Clay; Pottery

Material, Swedish

Keramik

Exhibitions

ANE exhibit 2000

Description, Swedish

Kilskriftstavla

Description

Rev. IV: –

V: (total:) 124 mixed oxen (and) cows, 4364 mixed sheep (and) goats;

Period

Third Dynasty of Ur ca 2100-2000 BC. ¯SS = ¯Su-Suen (2037–2029 BC)6/i–xiiII

Exhibition - Previously

(Be)longing

Time - Start: 2023-09-302023-09-30
Time - End: 2024-01-142024-01-14

Främre Orienten

Description: Near Eastern Collections
Among the highlights in the Near Eastern collection, are the Bronze Age objects found by professor T Arne, during the Swedish excavations of 1932 in Shah Tepe in northeastern Iran.
The Museum of Mediterranean and Near Eastern Antiquities also has one of the world's largest and finest collections of ancient Persian bronzes from Bronze- and Iron Age Luristan(2700 BC – 650 BC.
From Mesopotamia the museum has a representative collection of cuneiform tablets and seals from Sumerian and Babylonian times.
A relief from the Northwest palace in Nimrud, built by the Assyrian king Assurnasirpal II and dated to 860 BC, can be seen at the museum. Across the relief is a long inscription that tells the story of the king and his achievements.
The Englishman Austin Henry excavated the relief in the 1840’s in Iraq and presented it to Queen Josephine of Sweden. She in turn donated it to The National Museum of Fine Arts in Stockholm for its opening in 1866.A copy of the original relief is on display for the time being at the museum. (www.medelhavsmuseet.se, 2010-09-08)
The exhibition is located in room 9.
Time - Start: 20002000 [?]
Time - End: 20122012 [?]

Exhibition, Part of - Previously

Främre Orienten - Showcase 09:05.

Comments

Ex. case no 7c.

The text is an annual record of the amount of livestock distributed from Puzri¸s-Dagan near Nippur to different cities in the central part of the Ur III state. Puzri¸s-Dagan, founded by king ¯Sulgi, played an essential part in the extensive taxation system (the so-called bala service), likewise introduced by ¯Sulgi, which served to collect, process and distribute the state revenues. Puzri¸s-Dagan, working as a livestock fund for the Ur III state, delivered livestock to the cities in the core of the Ur III state and could in return expect to receive different products, such as cereals, reeds, timber, from other centers specializing in those products. It should be noted that the livestock brought to Puzri¸s-Dagan came from different cities on the periphery of the state and it seems as if the Ur III state exercised some kind of political control over these cities.

M. Sigrist has recently argued that the animals recorded in the Puzri¸s-Dagan archive were not necessarily brought to the city, but rather transported from their breeding places directly to their final destinations, and that Puzri¸s-Dagan only served as an administrative center for the accounts of the animals. If this reasonable theory has any merit, it would mean that only some animals were physically brought to the city. These would include e.g. the ones destined for the kitchens of the city (see text 3 and 4 below), whereas others probably never entered the city more than as economic figures in its huge bureaucratic archives.

Keyword

cuneiform; ceramics

Keyword, Swedish

kilskrift

NegNo

06054D

Cf Publications

Sigrist 1992, 97.

Publications

Magnus Widell 2005

PhotoNegNo

06055D, 06056D,

Condition

Complete

Original register

WestAsia

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