142 the babylonian tablets 



Translation. 

 Obverse Wanting. 



Rev. I, ( 1 ) Wages of the laborers (for) 300 days. 



5+5/8+1/364-1/72 of a gan 1 park land 



for ; 



Wages of the laborers (for) 190 days, 

 ploughed land. 



( 5 ) 1/3 -f- 3/1 8 of a gan park land to 



3+4/18+1/36 of a gan 



Wages of the laborers for 18 days, 

 food for the farmers, 

 for the field igi-\-e-mah. 



10+3+1/18+1/36+1/72 of a gan park land 

 to 2+4/18+1/36 of a gan 



(10) Wages of the laborers for 310 days 

 ploughed land. 



1 gan of park land to 



Wages of the workmen for days. 



Rev. II, ( 1 ) gan 1/36+1/72 of a gan park 



land to 2+4/18+1/36 of a gan. 

 Wages of the laborers for 12 days 

 *from the park, the excellent small field. 

 Wages of the park land, 



( 5 ) Overseer, Ludingirra, 

 seal of Shaningish. 



The year in which Gimil-Sin, the King, devas- 

 tated the land of Zabshali. 



Tablet No. 10 



Distribution of (grain) to ten different men for the oxen 

 during the barley harvest. Since the name of the month follows 

 the nomenclature used at Umma (the modern Jokha), we infer 

 that the tablet came from that place. It bears the date of the 7th 

 year of Bur-Sin, King of Ur (about 2211 B. C.) Size: length 5 

 centimeters, breadth 3.9 centimeters. 



L The gan is the unit of land measure. 



