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~2037 BCE·Ur III · Neo-Sumerian

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CUSAS 03, 0354

[...] Work-assignment: [per workman, 10] gín each; its workmen: 4, for 1 day; hired at 6 sila of barley each. Earth excavated, heaped up at the quay of Ki-mura. Delivery of Dingir-su-dan (Ilšu-dan), the overseer; booked out (as an expenditure). Month: Ezem-mah. Year: Šu-Suen, king of Ur, destroyed the land of Zabšali (Šu-Suen year 7). Copy (duplicate tablet).

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~2037 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianOur engine

CUSAS 03, 0355

[...] 4 shekels [(volume of)] earth; its length: 72 ninda; the work-assignment per workman: 2 1/2 shekels each; its workmen: 1,297, for 1 day; they were hired at 6 sila of barley each. Earth expended (for) the kisâ (retaining terrace) of the house of Bu[tanum]. Delivery. Lilâ, overseer of the hired men. Via Puzur-Ninkar, the scribe, and Iškur-illat, the chief household administrator (šabra). Month: "Festival of Mekigal." Year: Šu-Suen, king of Ur, [destroyed the land of] Zab-šali.

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AAICAB 1/1, pl. 018, 1911-147

AAICAB 1/1, pl. 019, 1911-152

AAICAB 1/1, pl. 019, 1911-158

AAICAB 1/1, pl. 023, 1911-179

AAICAB 1/1, pl. 025, 1911-190

AAICAB 1/1, pl. 025, 1911-191

AAICAB 1/1, pl. 027, 1911-197

AAICAB 1/1, pl. 028, 1911-200

AAICAB 1/1, pl. 046, 1911-483

AAICAB 1/1, pl. 052, 1912-1158

AAICAB 1/1, pl. 055, 1923-425

AAICAB 1/1, pl. 056, 1923-429

AAICAB 1/1, pl. 059, 1924-0546

AAICAB 1/1, pl. 059, 1924-0547

AAICAB 1/1, pl. 074, 1924-0687

AAICAB 1/1, pl. 078, 1924-2161

AAICAB 1/2, pl. 082, 1933-0389a

AAICAB 1/2, pl. 095, 1935-548

AAICAB 1/2, pl. 105, 1937-067

AAICAB 1/2, pl. 111, 1937-092

AAICAB 1/2, pl. 118, 1954-208

AAICAB 1/2, pl. 124, 1971-262

AAICAB 1/2, pl. 125, 1971-268

AAICAB 1/2, pl. 130, 1971-304

AAICAB 1/2, pl. 130, 1971-307

AAICAB 1/2, pl. 132, 1971-315

AAICAB 1/2, pl. 132, 1971-316

AAICAB 1/2, pl. 132, 1971-318

AAICAB 1/2, pl. 135, 1971-328

AAICAB 1/2, pl. 138, 1971-341

AAICAB 1/2, pl. 139, 1971-348

AAICAB 1/3, pl. 195, Bod A 60

AAICAB 1/3, pl. 196, Bod A 65

AAICAB 1/3, pl. 199, Bod A 88

AAICAB 1/3, pl. 199, Bod A 90

AAICAB 1/3, pl. 204, Bod B 15 (122)

AAICAB 1/3, pl. 204, Bod B 20 (127)

AAICAB 1/3, pl. 220, Bod S 171

AAICAB 1/3, pl. 240, Bod S 268

AAICAB 1/3, pl. 241, Bod S 277

AAICAB 1/3, pl. 242, Bod S 280