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A New Sale Document of the Ur III Period in the Sulaymaniyah Museum

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Altorientalische Forschungen
From the journal Altorientalische Forschungen Volume 44 Issue 2

Abstract

This contribution presents a copy, transliteration and translation of a Neo-Sumerian cuneiform tablet from the Ur III administration. The document comes from Umma and is kept in the Archaeological Museum of as-Sulaimānīyah (Iraqi Kurdistan).

Keywords: Mesopotamia; Cuneiform; Neo-Sumerian; Ur III; Umma; Sale Contract

Acknowledgement

I would like to thank Kamal Rashid, director of the Department of Archaeology, and Hashim Hama, director of the Sulaymaniyah Museum, for their kind permission to publish this tablet. I also owe many thanks to C. Lecompte for his very useful comments on an earlier draft.

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Fig. 1 T-0402 SM4563 obv. (photo by A. Kamil).
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T-0402 SM4563 obv. (photo by A. Kamil).

Fig. 2 T-0402 SM4563 rev. (photo by A. Kamil).
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T-0402 SM4563 rev. (photo by A. Kamil).

Fig. 3 T-0402 SM4563 left edge (photo by A. Kamil).
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T-0402 SM4563 left edge (photo by A. Kamil).

Fig. 4 Copy obv. by A. Kamil.
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Copy obv. by A. Kamil.

Fig. 5 Copy rev. by A. Kamil.
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Copy rev. by A. Kamil.

Published Online: 2017-12-1
Published in Print: 2017-12-1

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Keywords for this article
Mesopotamia; Cuneiform; Neo-Sumerian; Ur III; Umma; Sale Contract

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