CDLI P234864 o. 1-15

Extract from a record of workforce

by Paola Paoletti

Line	Text original	Text translated
o.i 1	646 ⸢erin2⸣	646 ⸢working gangs⸣
o.i 2	47 uĝ3-⸢ga6⸣	47 ⸢porters⸣
o.i 3	ša3-bi-ta	out of them
o.i 4	90 engar	90 ploughmen
o.i 5	90 dumu da-ba	90 children alongside (with) them
o.i 6	30 la2 1 ša3-gud ki-duru5	30 minus 1 oxen herders on fields
o.i 7	34 ša3-gud ki ĝeš-i3[glossary=ki ĝeš-i3]	34 oxen herders on sesame plots[glossary=ki ĝeš-i3]
o.i 8	60 a-ša3 ^ĝešbalaĝ	60 on the Balaĝ field
o.i 9	15 a-ša3 u3-lu2-^dutu	15 on the Ulu-Utu field
o.i 10	40 ki ĝeš-i3	40 on sesame plots
o.i 11	50 a-da gub-ba a-ša3 uru-ul	50 for the irrigation of the Urul field
o.i 12	20 an-za-gara3 gub-ba	20 stationed at Anzagara
o.i 13	8 zi-ga didli	8 for various expenditures
o.i 14	56 niĝ2-ĝal2-la	56 present
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o.i 15	⸢e2^?⸣ ^dnin-⸢ĝir2⸣-su	⸢temple of Ninĝirsu⸣

Commentary

This is an example of the available workforce and of the workers actually active in the field work managed by various temples and two individuals in Ĝirsu. The text has no final subscript. The following table summarizes the recorded workforce for each unit registered in the text.

Temple/Official	Total of available persons	Total of active persons	Total of persons active on sesame plots
T. Ninĝirsu	693	492	74 = ca. 15%
T. Ninĝešzida	163 ½	152	15 = ca. 10 %
Ur-Ninĝirsu	775	550+	57 = ca. 10 %
Puta	735	332+	[…]
T. Sulgi	356	110	37 = ca. 34 %
T. Amar-Suena	377	276,5	16 = ca. 6 %