Birmingham Cuneiform Texts – Translations Part 1

Birmingham Cuneiform Texts – Translations Part 1: Neo-Sumerian tablets from Drehem
Seal impression: traces only
BCT1, 131 = 1982A1186
4 jars of ordinary-quality beer (for) Anana,
8 jars of ordinary-quality beer (for) Udide,
3 (for) Lugal-guene,
4 (for) Nagalu,
5 (for) Lugal-rani,
3 (for) Ur-Shara,
2 (for) Aningata,
4½ (for) Lugal-[u]shime,
8 ordinary-quality , 1 of best-quality (for) Lu-Ninurra,
5 (for) Lugal-zaggesi,
4 ordinary-quality , ½ of best-quality, 1 jar of best-quality dida-beer
(for) [……….],
2 (for) Ur-mes,
7 (for) Sheshkalla,
5 (for) Lugal-gishmunu,
4 (for) Kha-[x]-la,
4 (for) Gishdurgarne,
4 (for) Lu-Eridu,
3 (for) Ur-abbasig,
3 (for) Akalla,
3 (for) Nadi.
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Total: 85½ jars of ordinary-quality beer.
Total: 1 best-quality dida-beer of 10 sila.
Total: 30 sila of best-quality beer.
(For) the policemen.
Copy of a tablet: day 8,
Month of Shueshsha (month 8),
Year the priestess of of Karzida (Amar-Sin 9).
Seal impression
Lu-[…..],
the scribe,
son of Lugal-ituda.
BCT1, 132 = 1982A1135
19 full-time female workers,
2 female workers on two-thirds wages,
for 7 days;
their work: 142⅓ female worker-days,
(on) the day Shulgi went up to heaven
(and) was released.
Withdrawn
from Anana.
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Month of the festival of Mekigal (month 11),
Year Kharshi and Kimash were raided (Shulgi 48).
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