Birmingham Cuneiform Texts – Translations Part 1

Birmingham Cuneiform Texts – Translations Part 1: Neo-Sumerian tablets from Drehem
month of the festival of Mekigal (month 11);
22 rams,
term of office of Ur-Lamma, governor of Girsu.
11 barley fed rams
for salting and dried meat,
month of cutting barley (month 12);
11 rams,
term of office of Ur-Lisi, governor of Umma.
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Total 32 barley-fed bulls.
Total 91 bulls.
Total 4 cows.
Total 2 suckling female calves.
Total 70 second-quality barley-fed rams.
Total 10 second-quality barley-fed fat-tailed rams.
Total 32 third-quality barley-fed rams.
Total 3 third-quality barley-fed fat-tailed rams.
Total 4 third-quality barley-fed long-fleeced rams.
Total 10 fourth-quality barley-fed rams.
Total 363 barley-fed rams.
Total 43 barley-fed fat-tailed rams.
Total 31 barley-fed male lambs.
[Total 231 barley-fed ewes].
[Total 6 barley-fed fat-tailed ewes].
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Total 25 barley-fed Shimashkian ewes.
Total 26 barley-fed ewe-lambs.
Total 3 second-quality barley-fed billy goats.
Total 1 third-quality barley-fed billy goat.
Total 37 barley-fed billy goats.
Total 2 barley-fed billy goat kids.
Total 9 barley-fed nanny goats.
Total 2 second-quality barley-fed nanny goat kids.
Total 2 third-quality barley-fed nanny goat kids.
Total 11 barley-fed nanny goat kids.
Total 210 rams.
Total 2 breeding rams.
Total 1 breeding fat-tailed ram.
Total 8 breeding long-fleeced rams.
Total 59 male lambs.
Total 6 long-fleeced male lambs.
Total 2 black fat-tailed male lambs.
Total 23 suckling male lambs.
Total 1 suckling fat-tailed male lamb.
Total 5 suckling long-fleeced male lambs.
Total 32 ewes.
Total 4 fat-tailed ewes.
Total 2 long-fleeced ewes.
Total 22 Shimashkian ewes.
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