The Ur III period is noted by Assyriologists and ancient historians for vast amount of surviving administrative and economic documents preserved on clay tablets. Most of the tablets were quite small and consists of 10-20 lines of text, recording receipts and disbursements of resources or labour. Due to the considerable amount of administrative texts which allowed scholars to reconstruct daily life of the Ur III period, the period is often considered a model of the early developments of bureaucracy and state control.
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An administrative cuneiform tablet fragment from the UR III period. Cuneiform scripts have been incised on the obverse depicting an account of fields as well as some personal names including Abaga… -hegal, Ur Shulpae son of An-ni du gal and Lu Shara. The reverse and sides are uneven and unadorned.
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| Weight | 135.3 g |
|---|---|
| Dimensions | 9.9 × 5.8 cm |
| Culture | Near Eastern |
| Pottery porcelain | Terracotta |
| Pottery and Porcelain | Terracotta |
| Region | Near East (Western Asiatic) |
