o. 3 ku5-ra2 „cut off“ for other purposes: see the commentary to HLC 3 373 (pl. 141) o. 3′, r. 6′.

r. 13 a-ša3 murub4 “medium quality fields” (Vanderroost 2012-2013: 88).

This text is one of three land surveys which document the extension of arable land in the province of Umma, in addition to AnOr 01 303, Orient 21 1 and Studies Postgate 562 Text E.

AnOr 01 303 documents the extension of arable land in the Umma province, though it is unfortunately not dated. The final caption lists 24,504 iku (= 8,821.44 ha) of „domain land“ (gana2-gud) and 15,930 iku (= 5,734.8 ha) of „medium quality fields“ (a-ša3 murub4), but does not assess either the areas of fallow land nor those reserved as subsistence land (AnOr 01 303 r. 12-13). According to the final caption, the sum of the „domain land“ and the „medium quality fields“ amounts to 40,434 iku (= 14,556.24 ha), which resembles the total arable land assessed in the two other land surveys dated in the year Amar-Suena 2 (Orient 21 1 and Studies Postgate 562 Text E, see table 1 below). The areas of „fallow land“ (buru14 bala) and those reserved as „subsistence land to be cultivated“ (šuku du3-du3-a, 8,910 iku = 3,207.6 ha) are not included in the final calculation of AnOr 01 303, but they appear in a previous section and they are unfortunately not entirely preserved in the tablet (see below in table 1) (Vanderroost 2012-2013: 88 - 89). The total amount of „domain land“ given in the final caption of AnOr 01 303 (24,504 iku (= 8,821.44 ha) corresponds to approximately twice as much as the „domain land“ registered in the aforementioned land surveys of the year Amar-Suena 2 (see table 3 below). Hence according to its final caption, AnOr 01 303 very likely assesses the whole arable land in Umma, without distinguishing cultivated from fallow land.

AnOr 01 303 also classifies the parcels of „domain land“ (gana2 gud, 24,504 iku = 8,821.44 ha) into eight types of plots (o. 1-8). 7.3 % of the total area was reserved for „sesame plots“ (ki ĝeš-i3[glossary=ki ĝeš-i3]), i.e. 1,800 iku (= 648 ha), which corresponds to exactly twice as much as the sesame cultivated plots recorded in the other two land surveys of the year Amar-Suena 2 (Orient 21 1 and Studies Postgate 562 Text E, see Table 2 and 3 below). The larger part was „domain land“ (gana2 gud) planted with cereals (88.1 %, 7,776 ha), again twice as much as recorded in the year Amar-Suena 2. Hence in this regard, AnOr 01 303 does not take into consideration that half of this land was generally left alternately fallow.  The sesame fields were regarded in Umma as well as in Ĝirsu as part of the „domain land“ (gana2 gud) (see also dossier A.1.1.3).

Orient 21 1 and Studies Postgate 562 Text E likewise document the distribution of land in Umma and they are dated in the year Amar-Suena 2 (the date of Studies Postgate 562 Text E is reconstructed after Orient 21 1, see Steinkeller 2017: 562). They quantify „domain land“ (gana2-gud, ca. 34.9 %), „fallow land“ (buru14 bala-be2, ca. 34.9 %) and „subsistence land to be cultivated“ (šuku du3-du3-a, ca. 30.21 %) (Vanderroost 2012-2013: 87 - 92). They do not register any area classified as being of medium quality like in AnOr 01 303. The total arable land thereafter amounted to up to 42,075 iku (= 15,147 ha) (Table 3).

The „domain land“ (gana2 gud) covered in total up to 14,268 iku (5,136.48 ha) (Studies Postgate 562 Text E) and is classified into up to eight categories. Ca. 6.4 % was occupied by „sesame fields“ (a-ša3 ĝeš-i3-ka), i.e. 900 iku (= 324 ha), whereas the larger part was planted with cereals (>76 %) (see following table 4).