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Neo-Sumerian letter-orders from Umma in the Iraq Museum

Authors

• • Abather Saadoon Abather Saadoon ORCID profile. (opens in new tab)
• • Annarita Stefania Bonfanti Annarita Stefania Bonfanti ORCID profile. (opens in new tab)

Abstract

The following article is devoted to five Ur III letter-orders belonging to the collection of the Iraq Museum. Letter-orders are not found in great abundance in the Iraq museum and these texts were not discovered in scientific excavations, but were confiscated by authorities or handed over to the Iraq Museum by Iraqi citizens. The texts can be dated to the Ur III dynasty (ca. 2114-2004 BC) by their palaeography and prosopography, and one text includes a date formula on its reverse that refers to the second year of the reign of Ibbi-Suen. Additionally, the prosopography of the texts suggests that the origin of most of the tablets was the city of Umma. These texts contribute to the corpus of letter-orders from the Ur III period and the administrative affairs of its officials.

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How to Cite: Saadoon, A. & Bonfanti, A. (2021) “Neo-Sumerian letter-orders from Umma in the Iraq Museum”, Akkadica. 142(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.21825/akkadica.99678