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1. Messenger text
(Obverse)
The third dynasty of Ur
Umma (modern Jokha)
A tablet from a resthouse, where couriers travelling with messages
of rulers would stop on their way from city to city: a report on giving
standard food rations to couriers
Translation:
- 5 liters of beer, 3 liters of bread broth, 3/60 liters of onions,
3/60 liters of oil, 2/60 liters of alkali plant
- (for) Ipkusha.
- 5 liters of beer, 3 liters of bread broth, 3/60 liters of onions,
3/60 liters of oil, 2/60 liters of alkali plant
- (for) Urshulpae.
- 5 liters of beer, 3 liters of bread broth, 3/60 liters of onions,
3/60 liters of oil, 2/60 liters of alkali plant
- (for) Puzurmama.
- 5 liters of beer, 3 liters of bread broth, 3/60 liters of onions,
3/60 liters of oil, 2/60 liters of alkali plant
- (for) Ahushuni.
- 5 liters of beer, 3 liters of bread broth, 3/60 liters of onions,
3/60 liters of oil, 2/60 liters of alkali plant
- (for) Shukub.
- 3 liters of beer, 2 liters of bread broth, 3/60 liters of onions,
3/60 liters of oil, 2/60 liters of alkali plant
- (for) Puzur-ishtar.
- 3 liters of beer, 2 liters of bread broth, 3/60 liters of onions,
3/60 liters of oil, 2/60 liters of alkali plant
- (for) Halasha.
- 3 liters of beer, 2 liters of bread broth, 3/60 liters of onions,
3/60 liters of oil, 2/60 liters of alkali plant (for) Lakip.
- 1 vessel of beer extract of “regular” (quality) with a
volume of 20 liters, 30 liters of barley flour, 1/2 liters of oil
- (for) Erratsilul.
- Total: 34 liters of beer (and) 1 vessel of beer extract of “regular”
(quality) with a volume of 20 liters.
- Total: 21 liter of bread broth (and) 30 liters of barley flour.
- Total: 1/3+4/60 liters of onions. Total: 5/6+4/60 liters of oil.
Total: 16/60 liters of alkali plant.
- Day 11. The month when “The brick was put into the mold”
(i.e. the second month of the Umma calendar).
- The year after the year after the year when Shusin, the king of Ur
built the wall (against) the Amorites (i.e. around 2030 b.c.).
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