Birmingham Cuneiform Texts – Translations Part 1

Birmingham Cuneiform Texts – Translations Part 1: Neo-Sumerian tablets from Drehem
BCT1, 117 = 1982A668
35 sheep remaining
month of eating sheshda (month 3), day 3 had passed;
76 sheep (from) deliveries and sheep (entered) individually
on the account of Dudu;
132 sheep in Susa;
(Total): 243.
From these:
11 rams (for) the kitchen the third time,
10 rams (under) the seal of Urtur,
1 ram (under) the seal of Enlil-sisa,
3 rams (under) the seal of Ka’amu,
1 ram (under) the seal of Shu-Enlil,
1 ram (under) the seal of Nitamma,
2 rams (under) the seal of the shepherd of dogs:
from the sealed tablets.
9 rams (for) Igi-Enlil,
[x] rams (for) Dadakhamati,
[x] rams (for) Akhuni, the carpenter,
[x] ewes (for) Lama-palil,
{7 lines damaged}
1 billy goat kid (for) Dada, man of Urtur;
6 rams – Abbakalla took delivery;
1 ram (for) Zazi – not delivered;
1 ram (for) Lama-palil, the scribe;
1 […..] (for) Ur-Enlilla, the doorkeeper;
1 [………] – Dudu took delivery;
[…………..]-du took delivery;
1 [………...]-lil;
1 ram […….]-tir.
(Total): 73.
Withdrawal.
170 sheep remaining,
the account of Ishme-ilum.
Month of eating ubi-bird (month 4), day 7 had passed,
Year the omen kid chose the priest of Inanna (Ibbi-Sin 2).
Note
This text belongs to a well known type of “balanced accounts” which illustrate
Sumerian book-keeping. It begins (lines 1-6) by listing animals totalling 243 which
are available on the account of an individual called Ishme-ilum (line 39). It then
records a series of withdrawals totalling 73 animals leaving a balance of 170 animals
remaining on the account (line 38). As with other summary tablets this text would
have been compiled from a series of archived tablets recording all the individual
transactions concerned.
BCT1, 118 = 1982A1065
(col. i)
[x best-quality barley-fed bulls],
[x second-quality barley-fed bulls],
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