Tablet with cuneiform inscription documenting hired labor
Not On View
Unknown
Mesopotamian; Babylonian
Place made:
Asia; Mesopotamia; Sumeria; Drehem
Tablet with cuneiform inscription documenting hired labor, ca. 2063 BCE (Third Dynasty of Ur, Shulgi year 32, month 3)
Clay
Overall: 1 1/8 in x 1 11/16 in x 1 3/4 in; 2.9 cm x 4.3 cm x 4.4 cm
Transfer from the Department of Religion, Mount Holyoke College
MH 2016.14.3
TRANSLATION: “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.”