Iraq -- Umma (Extinct city)

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              Tablet 3: Found at Jokha, record of temple offerings
              B01-I03 · Objects and artifacts · 2300 BC
              Part of Cuneiform Tablet Collection

              Clay Cuneiform tablet.

              Purchased by South Dakota State College President Willis E. Johnson from Dr. Edgar J. Banks in 1923.

              Transcribed by Dr. Edgar J. Banks in an undated letter: Found at Jokha, the ruin of the ancient city of Umma in Central Babylonia. >This is a typical record of the temple offerings. After the tablet was written, and while the clay was still soft, the temple scribe rolled over the entire tablet his cylindrical stone seal and the seal impression made it impossible to change the record. The seal impression bears in raised characters the name of the scribe and of his father. It is dated about 2300 B.C.

              Description by the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative, UCLA

              • Provenience: Umma (mod. Tell Jokha)
              • Period: Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)
              • Dates referenced: Iggi-Suen.01.00.00
              • Material: clay
              • Language: Sumerian
              • Genre: Administrative
              • Obverse: 1. 1(gesz2)# 4(u)# 3(disz) {gesz#}eme szinig; 3. ki e2-ur2-bi-du10-ta; 4. szabra gu4-ke4; 5. szu ba-ti / reverse: 1. a-sza3 KA da?; 2. kiszib3 nimgir-an-ne2; 3. mu {d}i-bi2-{d}suen lugal#