A Neo-Sumerian Field Plan at the Museum of Suleymania
Keywords:
cuneiform, tablet, Sumerian, field, planAbstract
The text here presented belong to the small collection acquired, in the recent years, by Süleymaniah museum, located in Kurdistan, Iraq, which includes an unpublished tablet dating from the third dynasty of Ur. The tablet has suffered significant damage. It is a Field Plan used in agriculture for a family in the Category of Land Tenure.
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AAICAB: Grégoire, J.-P., Archives Administratives et Inscriptions Cunéiformes Ashmolean Museum, Bodleian Collection, Oxford (Librairie Orientaliste Paul Geuthner 1996.
ArOr: Archiv Orientalni (Prague)
CUSAS 3 : Cornell University Studies in Assyriology and Sumerology (Bethesda, 2007ff.)
RA: Revue d'Assyriologie et d'Archéologie Orientale (Paris 1886 ff.)
SANTAG : Karl Hecker und Walter Sommerfeld, eds., Arbeiten und Untersuchungen zur Keilschriftkunde
Fig. 1: SM: 37369 obverse Fig. 2: SM: 37369 Reverse
Fig. 3: Copy Obv. by Ari KAMIL Fig. 4: copy Rev. by Ari KAMIL
(Photo by Museum)
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