Tablet with cuneiform inscription documenting hired labor

This tablet is inscribed in cuneiform documenting hired labor. The inscription says:  “10 hired men, 2 bariga each is their hire, 1 bariga each is their sustenance, their barley is 6 gur. For half a month the disbursement for them is, in barigas, 15. Third month of the thirty-second year of Shulgi, king of Ur.”   Transfer from the Department of Religion, Mount Holyoke CollegeDigitised by Laura Weston, 2019 - lmweston@mtholyoke.edu