Tablet with a cuneiform inscription: Laborers for agricultural work
General region:Asia
Culture: Neo-Sumerian
Period: Ur III period
Date: ca. 2100-2000 B.C.
Medium: Clay
Dimensions:
h. 1 in. (2.5 cm); w. 1 1/2 in. (3.8 cm); d. 5/8 in. (1.6 cm)
Credit Line: San Antonio Museum of Art, gift of Frances and Frederick Wilkins
Object number: 99.5.31
Inscribed: Tablet:
(Obverse:)
[ ] x x
[X acres for] (turning over with) plow for the third time.
[L]u-Sará, farmer:
2,1170 acres (to turn over with) plow for the second time.
(Reverse:)
Ur-Eana, farmer:
2,1170 acres for (turning over with) plow for the second time.
[Lug]al-nirgal, farmer:
[X workers, for digging with] hoe (4?) sar …
Trans. after García Recio 2021
Provenance: with Alex G. Malloy, Inc., South Salem, New York, by 1997; with Frances Semaan Wilkins (1916-1999) and Frederick J. Wilkins (1916-2004), San Antonio, by 1997; by gift to the San Antonio Museum of Art, 1999
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