Tag: cuneiform
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From Flight
Four workers in Umma each receive one garment, and beside two of their names the scribe wrote “from flight”.
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Beer for the Fugitive-Catchers
A Girsu supply list pays out beer and flour to two named fugitive-catchers, one of them an Amorite.
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The Lady’s Runaway Fisherman
A Girsu ration list feeds Elamites from Šimaški, riders to Susa, and a man sent after a runaway fisherman.
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Once Inim-Utu Swears
A purchase in Umma hangs on a dead man, three witnesses and one oath still to be sworn.
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Never Sold
Eleven years after Ku-Šara was sold for 3½ shekels, a claim of “not sold” is upheld before Umma’s governor.
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Akaka, Seven Shekels
A sale contract from Umma, wrapped in its own sealed clay envelope, names a woman called Akaka and her price.
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The Moon God’s Donkeys
Two donkeys of the moon god Nanna go missing, a man from Irisagrig confesses, and a guarantor steps in.
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Twice She Ran
Geme-Baba ran away twice. Then, before five witnesses, an oath by the king: she would not run again.
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Say to Lalli’a
A clay letter under five centimetres across, still in its envelope, sealed by a scribe who served the physician Šu-Kabta.
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The Hunt for the Palace’s Runaways
A Girsu flour list feeds a man sent to catch the palace’s runaway women, and thirteen captured Elamites from Huhnuri.