New Evidence for Sumerian Agricultural Land Terminology in Sargonic Umma
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Hanan Abd Alhamza Alessawe
Abstract
This article presents an unpublished cuneiform tablet measuring 13.5 × 14.0 × 1.5 cm. that has been confiscated and now bears the accession number I.M. 204249. According to its palaeography, form, content, prosopography and the mu – iti dating formula, it originates from the Umma region and dates to the Old Akkadian period. It contains a list of different field types of varying sizes leased to a large number of people and hence lends itself to a study of agricultural land terminology.
Acknowledgements
We gratefully acknowledge helpful corrections and suggestions by the two reviewers and thank Jana Matuszak for seeing the article through to publication.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Frontmatter
- New Evidence for Sumerian Agricultural Land Terminology in Sargonic Umma
- “kišib-gu10 zi-ra-ab”: Annul my Sealed Tablet!
- A Tale of Two Cities
- “In Heaven, at Evening”
- The Archaeological Distribution of the Cuneiform Corpus
- On Shifting Social and Urban Landscapes in Uruk under Nabû-kudurrī-uṣur II
- The Vanity Theme and Critical Wisdom in Mesopotamian Literature
- Taxation and Tax Farming in the Egibi Archive
