Tablet with cuneiform inscription documenting hired labor
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Tablet with cuneiform inscription documenting hired labor
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This tablet is inscribed in cuneiform documenting hired labor.
The inscription says: “10 hired men, 2 bariga each is their hire, 1 bariga each is their sustenance, their barley is 6 gur. For half a month the disbursement for them is, in barigas, 15. Third month of the thirty-second year of Shulgi, king of Ur.”
Transfer from the Department of Religion, Mount Holyoke College
Digitised by Laura Weston, 2019 - lmweston@mtholyoke.edu
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| Date published | 04/02/2019 |
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| Title | Tablet with cuneiform inscription documenting hired labor |
| Date | ca. 2063 BCE (Third Dynasty of Ur, Shulgi year 32, month 3) |
| Dimension | 2.9 cm x 4.3 cm x 4.4 cm |
| Accession | MH 2016.14.3 |
| Period | 2063 BCE |
| Medium | Clay |
| Credit | Digitised by Laura Weston, 2019 - lmweston@mtholyoke.edu |
| Record | http://museums.fivecolleges.edu/detail.php?museum=all&t=objects&type=all&f=&s=MH+2016.14.3&record=0 |
| Place | Mount Holyoke College Art Museum |
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