This text documents an „inspection of barley and wool allotments“ (gurum2 aka še-ba siki-ba) for various female workers who joined the workforce of various shrines in the Umma region as a „dedication“ (a-ru-a) from various individuals in the year Šulgi 28. Among them occur sesame oil-milling women. The following table summarizes the size of each of the three groups of female workers documented in the final caption of the text.

Not surprisingly for Umma, the weavers received the largest addition to the workforce, followed by the oil milling women and eventually the millers. Moreover, this text illustrates once more how weavers, millers and oil milling women[glossary=geme2 i3-sur]are often documented together in various types of administrative sources concerning the management of the workforce (in Umma see e.g. TLB 3 071, 0000.00.00; in Ur see e.g. UET 3 1504 and UET 3 1422; Lafont 2013). This is due to the fact that milling, weaving and pressing oil were activities essentially run at institutional level, performed by women working in large production units that were often associated with and likely incorporated into unique places (Lafont 2016: 169).

r. ii 26-28 These lines are almost completely lost apart from the very last sign of each line. I present here an attempted reconstruction completed according to the first part of the list (ll. i 1 – iv 28), which however must remain speculative.

r. iii 7, 11 Lines recording female children who received 20 sila/litres of barley and 1.5 mana (= 750 g) of wool each feature a sign tur immediately before the indicated number of individuals, both in the main list and in the totals. This is the case only in this text and in another inspection list from Umma (CDLI P429776), but it is never attested in any inspection from Ĝirsu. Its meaning is to the best of my knowledge still unclear.

r. iii 16 – Ca. 10-12 lines lost. Because of the blank space following the list of sesame oil-milling women in r. ii 19, no other group of workers is to be expected here.