Tablet with cuneiform inscription documenting hired labor

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This clay tablet bears a cuneiform inscription detailing hired labor arrangements. The text states: "Ten workers are paid two barigas each as wages, one bariga for sustenance, and their barley allowance totals six gur. For half a month, the total payment for these laborers amounts to fifteen barigas." The inscription is dated to the third month of the thirty-second year of Shulgi's reign in Ur. Transfer from the Department of Religion, Mount Holyoke CollegeDigitised by Laura Weston, 2019 - lmweston@mtholyoke.edu