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Unpublished Cuneiform Texts from Ur III Period | ||
| Athar al-rafedain | ||
| Article 7, Volume 9, Issue 2, June 2024, Pages 151-174 PDF (6.88 M) | ||
| Document Type: Research Paper | ||
| DOI: 10.33899/aa.2024.183412 | ||
| Author | ||
| mahmood hamid ahmed* | ||
| mosul university, mosul, iraq | ||
| Abstract | ||
| The study of texts from the most important historical sources deals with knowledge of the real economic, political and cultural life of the people of Mesopotamia. The research we have is an important aspect of those influences, which is the economic aspect. The research includes four unpublished cuneiform texts dating back to Ur III period and preserved in the Iraqi Museum. After reading and analyzing it, we found that it had diverse economic implications, including numbers of clothes distributed to a number of people as taxes, areas of fields in which the number of furrows completed was determined, the remaining days of work for a group of female workers, as well as quantities of barley that were allocated to a number of people. The texts of the study did not reach the Iraqi Museum through scientific archaeological excavations, but rather serve through important discoveries that have an unknown relationship. It also identified texts devoid of historical formulas, except for the third text, which was dated to the first year of the reign of King Abi-Suen. Also, the texts did not mention in them the name of any of the months that they used according to the calendar followed by the city in which these texts were dated, which makes it difficult for the researcher to determine The location of the geography or city from which the texts are covered, but we were able to determine the origin of those texts through the personal names that follow them in the following texts, as well as names, professions, and different names, in addition to the comparisons that were made with many texts dating back to Ur III period, so it became clear that the texts The first three of the research refer to the city of Umma, while the fourth text is of great interest to be from the three Sumerian cities of GARšana, Iri-sagrig, and Umma | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Cuneiform Texts; Ur III; Umma; Field Sweepers; Clothes; Female Workers | ||
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