Birmingham Cuneiform Texts – Translations Part 1

Birmingham Cuneiform Texts – Translations Part 1: Neo-Sumerian tablets from Drehem
1 male lamb (from) Shulgi-nada;
9 bulls, 1 cow (from) Khuba’a;
1 barley-fed bull, 9 rams, 1 billy goat kid,
1 male lamb (from) Ur-Ba’u, the steward;
1 male lamb, 1 billy goat kid (from) En-Inanna;
2 barley-fed bulls, 12 rams, 8 billy goats,
1 billy goat kid (from) Ibni-Adad;
1 male lamb (from) Zikur-Ili;
[…………(from) ….]-azu, the overseer;
[…………(from) ….]-Adad, the overseer;
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[……………the over]seer;
[……………]-a, the overseer;
day 5.
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a delivery;
Nasha took delivery.
Month of the festival of Ninazu (month 5),
Year Amar-Sin became king (Amar-Sin 1).
60.
BCT1, 41 = 1982A587
3 barley-fed rams,
day 1,
from Abbashaga;
Nalu took delivery.
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Month of the festival of Mekigal (month 11),
Year Amar-Sin became king (Amar-Sin 1).
3.
BCT1, 42 = 1982A571
1 barley-fed fat-tailed ram,
1 male lamb,
day 8,
from Abbashaga;
Shulgi-a’amu
took delivery.
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Month of the festival of Mekigal (month 11),
Year Amar-Sin became king (Amar-Sin 1).
2.
BCT1, 43 = 1982A579
1 male dusu-equid,
1 suckling male dusu-equid foal,
2 female dusu-equids,
property of Shulgi-Ili, son of Rabibi,
from Abbashaga;
Shu-Irra
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