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Maker(s):Unknown
Culture:Mesopotamian; Babylonian
Title:Tablet with cuneiform inscription documenting hired labor
Date Made:ca. 2063 BCE (Third Dynasty of Ur, Shulgi year 32, month 3)
Type:Written Communication
Materials:Clay
Place Made:Asia; Mesopotamia; Sumeria; Drehem
Measurements:Overall: 1 1/8 in x 1 11/16 in x 1 3/4 in; 2.9 cm x 4.3 cm x 4.4 cm
Accession Number:  MH 2016.14.3
Credit Line:Transfer from the Department of Religion, Mount Holyoke College
Museum Collection:  Mount Holyoke College Art Museum
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Description:
Sealed envelope and table; account of hired labor.

Label Text:
TRANSLATION: “10 hired men, 2 bariga each is their hire, 1 bariga each is their sustenance, their barley is 6 gur. For half a month the disbursement for them is, in barigas, 15. Third month of the thirty-second year of Shulgi, king of Ur.”

Tags:
ancient; archaeology

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