The State Hermitage Museum: Exhibitions

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8. A bulla for a basket with documents

The Early Dynastic period (the mid third millennium B.C.)

The city-state of Lagash, Girsu (modern Tello)

		Obverse Larger view

		Fragment of the reverse Larger view

Imprints of the rush-woven basket can be easily seen on the other side

Translation:
"Basket with tablets: (concerning) land allotments sown with barley, (and) rented parcels. These are the notes of the year when the fields in the area of Ambar were plowed. Sasa, wife of Urukagina king of Lagash. (Year) 4."