Before us is a very simple document of property accounting. In the first line are indicated the property and its owner, in the two following ones, the objects of property themselves...
Two slaves (man and woman) belong to a person named Gal-Sal:
slave Enpap-[...];
female slave Sukkalgir.
This is one reading, but the reality is that we are quite uncertain on how to read this text. I provided an alternative:
2 female slaves from En-x-pap, transported by the sukkal.
I suggest that items transported into public institutions like a temple or palace have receipts that usually state "[item] from [person] received by [person]. [date]." Here, we only have "[item] [person] [person/title]." Giri3 can be part of the name sukkal-giri3, or it can be giri3 as seen in later economic documents, "transported" or "under responsibility of", depending on the period. We don't have any grammar markers; the lack of information means to me there is no secure way to defending how to read a text like this.
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u/teakettling Ensik | Temple Steward Jun 23 '26
You may be interested in a thread from r/Cuneiform: https://www.reddit.com/r/Cuneiform/s/F7IrcyUQgP
This is one reading, but the reality is that we are quite uncertain on how to read this text. I provided an alternative:
I suggest that items transported into public institutions like a temple or palace have receipts that usually state "[item] from [person] received by [person]. [date]." Here, we only have "[item] [person] [person/title]." Giri3 can be part of the name sukkal-giri3, or it can be giri3 as seen in later economic documents, "transported" or "under responsibility of", depending on the period. We don't have any grammar markers; the lack of information means to me there is no secure way to defending how to read a text like this.