Category: History
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They Will Confirm
An Umma memo lists villagers, pairs of men who “will confirm”, and a potter who swears his oath.
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Flour for the Road East
A Girsu flour list feeds envoys bound for Susa and Huhnuri, and a captain’s son sent to catch runaways.
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The Boundary Orchard Gang
A Girsu work register sends nineteen men to the boundary orchard. Fourteen of them are listed as runaways.
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Counted Short
An Umma note names four workers who ran away, their overseers, and the bookkeeper’s verdict: a shortfall.
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Flour for an Oath
A tiny Umma receipt pays out two litres of flour for an oath and names “the overseer of the runaways”.
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Whatever Is in the Basket
Before five witnesses, Zazana’a swears by the king to make good whatever a basket of sealed receipts records.
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Seventy-Three Dead Animals
A Girsu account adds up dead oxen, calves, donkeys and sheep, and ends with one man’s oath about them.
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Out of Custody in Nippur
Five men from four towns, held under a temple manager and a general, get flour in Nippur after leaving custody.
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The Jenny and Her Foal
In Umma, two men come forward to swear about a female donkey and her foal. Then Ina-ṣir may take her.
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Oil for the Women of Šara
An Umma ration list gives sesame oil to about sixty women of Šara. Three names get only “fled”.
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- The Jenny and Her Foal
- Oil for the Women of Šara
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