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~2270 BCE·Akkadian Empire

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1 rope: dur-ab-sag (type) its weight: 2 mina 1 (unit) bitumen its weight: 1/3 (mina) 4 ropes: ...-da (type) [n] 2 ropes: a2-an (type) [its weight]: 26 mina 1 leather plow-rope received — by Ili-ahi, servant of the governor. Returned to hand (repaid). It is the matter of the seal-cutter. Month: Šugar.

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~2270 BCE·Akkadian EmpireOur engine

Lippmann Coll 270

1 eš-munsub (a chariot fitting/part); 1 bar-ra of a chariot (a side-piece/rail); 1 šallatum (a chariot part); their weight: 2 2/3 mina; (they are from) an old chariot of the ensi (governor); to Ur-a2 it was given; returned to hand (received/accounted for) — it is (the responsibility/matter) of the seal-cutter. Month: ab-e3-zi-ga.

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TCBI 1, 027

RIME 3/1.01.07.037, ex. add1245

RIME 3/1.01.07.037, ex. add1287

RIME 3/1.01.07.037, ex. add1338

RIME 3/1.01.07.037, ex. add1487

RIME 3/1.01.07.037, ex. add1488

RIME 3/1.01.07.040, ex. add06

RIME 3/1.01.07.041, ex. add368

RIME 3/1.01.07.041, ex. add369

RIME 3/1.01.07.042, ex. add16

RIME 3/1.01.07.048, ex. add092

RIME 3/1.01.07.048, ex. add106

RTC 263

AAICAB 1/1, pl. 059, 1924-0553

AAICAB 1/2, pl. 093, 1935-541

MS 1739/1

AuOr 31, 232 01