Line | Text original | Text translated |
---|---|---|
o. 1 | 3 ab2 maḫ2 | 3 adult cows |
o. 2 | 4 gud ĝeš | 4 yoke oxen |
o. 3 | 2 gud 1 | 2 1-year oxen |
o. 4 | 1 ab2 amar ga | 1 female calf |
o. 5 | 1 nu gud ĝeš ki ĝeš-i3[glossary=ki ĝeš-i3] | 1 non (present) yoke ox for sesame plots[glossary=ki ĝeš-i3] |
o. 6 | 1 anše su-ga engar | 1 donkey replaced (by the) ploughman |
o. 7 | lu2-dnin-dar-a | Lu-Nindara |
0 | (…) | |
r. 11 | gud apin dib-ba | conscripted plough oxen |
r. 12 | e2 dnin-dar-a | temple of Nindara |
r. 13 | ugula ses-kal-la | overseer Seskalla |
r. 14 | ša3 a-ša3 la-za-wi | in the Lazawi field |
r. 15 | mu us2-sa damar-dzuen lugal | date (year) |
CT 07 32 BM 018394 o. 1-7, r. 11-15
The following table summarizes the distribution of yoke oxen assigned to each working group recorded in the text.
Overseer
(nu-banda3 gud “inspector of plough oxen”) |
Working Group of PN
(engar “ploughman”) |
Adult Cattle | Young Cattle | Yoke Oxen for Sesame Plots | Equids |
Lugalme | Lu-Nindara | 7 | 3 | 1 (non-present) | 1 |
Lugaldaban | 2 | 1 | 2 | ||
Nabasa | 1 | 1 | |||
Urmes, son of Gugilim | 3 | 1 | |||
Ur-Utu | 3 | ||||
Lugalšala | Magure, the ploughman | 5 | 2 | 1 (non-present) | |
Urmes, son of Urdub | 2 | ||||
Total | 25 | 5 | 4 / 2 (non present) | 3 |
For the Lazawi field, 7 groups of ploughing animals are documented, five of which could have had 1 yoke ox for sesame plots per each plough team. This lies in the same range as one out of eight oxen herders that were deployed in a sesame plot[glossary=ki ĝeš-i3] according to TMH NF 1-2 292, ŠS.04.00.00).
r. 1 Lugalme was an „inspector of plough oxen“ (nu-banda3 gud) (TUT 095, […].00.00; SNAT 059, Šu.48.09.00) managing a parcel of „domain land“ (gana2-gud) for the Nindara temple (e.g. ASJ 04 114 16, Šu.48.00.00).
r. 10 Lugalšala managed a parcel of „domain land“ (gana2-gud) for the Nindara temple (CT 01 08 94-10-16 2, AS.08.00.00; AnOr 45 378 63, IS.03.00.00).
r. 11 Translation after Studevent-Hickman 2006: 236; see also the translation “plough oxen having passed” by Heimpel 1995: 118.
Bibliography
- Heimpel 1995 = Heimpel, Wolfgang (1995): Plow Animal Inspection Records from Ur III Girsu and Umma, in: Bulletin on Sumerian Agriculture 8, 71-171.
- Studevent-Hickman 2006 = Studevent-Hickman, Benjamin (2006): The Organization of Manual Labor in Ur III Babylonia. PhD Diss.. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University.