<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?><pres:item xmlns:pres="http://kulturarvsdata.se/presentation#"><pres:version>1.3.0</pres:version><pres:buildDate>2026-09-15</pres:buildDate><pres:itemLabel xml:lang="en">tablet</pres:itemLabel><pres:dataQuality>Rådata</pres:dataQuality><pres:id>3400082</pres:id><pres:service>objekt</pres:service><pres:organization xml:lang="en">Statens museer för världskultur - Medelhavsmuseet</pres:organization><pres:organizationShort>SMVK-MM</pres:organizationShort><pres:type xml:lang="en">Föremål</pres:type><pres:entityUri>http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-MM/objekt/3400082</pres:entityUri><pres:idLabel>MM 1977:018</pres:idLabel><pres:description xml:lang="en">Sumerian administration document from the city PD = Puzri¸s-Dagan. Livestock from Abba¸saga received by Ur-mes (governor of Uru-sagrig).”; mu-DU lugal. Translation: Obv: (1)2 cows, (2)3 sheep, 2 ewes, (3)10 full-grown goats, 5 she-goats, (4)(for) a gift (to) the goddess Ninhursag of the city of Nippur, (5)responsible: Ahuahi, (6)the first time; (7)63 oxen, 14 cows, (8)the second time;
Rev: (9)3 oxen, the third time; (10)a mu-DU delivery (of) the king, (11)responsible: Baga, the fattener; (12)From Abba¸saga, (13)Ur-mes, the governor (of) the city of Urusagrig, received; (14)The month of the ¸sue¸s¸sa (viii); (15)The year: Enmahgalanna, the high priestess of the god Nanna, was installed. (AS 4)
Left side: (16)(total:) 165 cattle, 20 small cattle</pres:description><pres:content xml:lang="en">MM 1977:018, Ex. case no 7d.
This text refers to the economic distribution of livestock from the city of Puzri¸s-Dagan, to the city of Urusagrig, perhaps found east of Nippur in the center of the mainland of the Ur III state. It describes how Abba¸saga is delivering different domestic animals to Ur-mes, the governor of Urusagrig, mentioning at the same time that the animals originally were a so-called mu-DU delivery of the king. Ur-mes should be added to the list of T. Gomi, who studied the meaning of “mu-DU lugal”, with very few officials attested as receiving (or delivering) the mu-DU lugal livestock. 
During the reign of Amar-Suen – the successor of ¯Sulgi – the economic system of Puzri¸s-Dagan underwent important changes. From the first year of Amar-Suen, only one huge bureau for receipt of animals remained, with Abba¸saga as its new main official (replacing the receiving and delivering official Na¸sa). All animals were received by Abba¸saga, who then either transferred them further to other officials or, as in our text, directly distributed them to their final destinations. Abba¸saga could not keep his position as single head of the organization for long: in the 9th month of the 3rd year of the reign of Amar-Suen, the deliveries to the breeding officials of Puzri¸s-Dagan were conducted by the ambitious official Intaea. Intaea had an excellent career in front of him, and it seems as if he was controlling the whole organization only a few years later in the reign of ¯Su-Suen., Magnus Widell 2005, Främre Orienten, Iraq, Främre Orienten - Showcase 09:05.</pres:content><pres:context><pres:event xml:lang="en">Brukad</pres:event><pres:timeLabel xml:lang="en">Third Dynasty of Ur ca 2100-2000 BC. AS = Amar-Suen (2046–2038 BC)</pres:timeLabel></pres:context><pres:context><pres:event xml:lang="en">Funnen</pres:event><pres:placeLabel xml:lang="en">Asien, Irak, PD = Puzri¸s-Dagan</pres:placeLabel></pres:context><pres:image><pres:mediaType>image/jpeg</pres:mediaType><pres:src type="thumbnail">https://collections.smvk.se/carlotta-mhm/web/image/tn/3822441/representation</pres:src><pres:src type="lowres">https://collections.smvk.se/carlotta-mhm/web/image/zoom/3822442/representation</pres:src><pres:mediaLicense>http://kulturarvsdata.se/resurser/License#cc0</pres:mediaLicense><pres:byline xml:lang="en">Kaneberg, Ove</pres:byline><pres:copyright xml:lang="en">Utgången upphovsrätt</pres:copyright></pres:image><pres:image><pres:mediaType>image/jpeg</pres:mediaType><pres:src type="thumbnail">https://collections.smvk.se/carlotta-mhm/web/image/tn/3822444/representation</pres:src><pres:src type="lowres">https://collections.smvk.se/carlotta-mhm/web/image/zoom/3822445/representation</pres:src><pres:mediaLicense>http://kulturarvsdata.se/resurser/License#cc0</pres:mediaLicense><pres:byline xml:lang="en">Kaneberg, Ove</pres:byline><pres:copyright xml:lang="en">Utgången upphovsrätt</pres:copyright></pres:image><pres:image><pres:mediaType>image/jpeg</pres:mediaType><pres:src type="thumbnail">https://collections.smvk.se/carlotta-mhm/web/image/tn/3822447/representation</pres:src><pres:src type="lowres">https://collections.smvk.se/carlotta-mhm/web/image/zoom/3822448/representation</pres:src><pres:mediaLicense>http://kulturarvsdata.se/resurser/License#cc0</pres:mediaLicense><pres:byline xml:lang="en">Kaneberg, Ove</pres:byline><pres:copyright xml:lang="en">Utgången upphovsrätt</pres:copyright></pres:image><pres:image><pres:mediaType>image/jpeg</pres:mediaType><pres:src type="thumbnail">https://collections.smvk.se/carlotta-mhm/web/image/tn/3822450/representation</pres:src><pres:src type="lowres">https://collections.smvk.se/carlotta-mhm/web/image/zoom/3822451/representation</pres:src><pres:mediaLicense>http://kulturarvsdata.se/resurser/License#cc0</pres:mediaLicense><pres:byline xml:lang="en">Kaneberg, Ove</pres:byline><pres:copyright xml:lang="en">Utgången upphovsrätt</pres:copyright></pres:image><pres:references><pres:reference>http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-MM/Photograph/3907248</pres:reference><pres:reference>http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-MM/Photograph/3916913</pres:reference><pres:reference>http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-MM/Photograph/3916914</pres:reference><pres:reference>http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-MM/Photograph/3916915</pres:reference><pres:reference>http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-MM/Photograph/3916916</pres:reference><pres:reference>http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-MM/exhibition/3953894</pres:reference><pres:reference>http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-MM/exhibitionpart/3953902</pres:reference></pres:references><pres:representations><pres:representation format="HTML">http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-MM/objekt/html/3400082</pres:representation><pres:representation format="XML">http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-MM/objekt/xml/3400082</pres:representation><pres:representation format="RDF">http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-MM/objekt/rdf/3400082</pres:representation></pres:representations></pres:item>