BIN 08, 028 ,Hackman, George G. P221550 (administrative)

[sheshki]

Primary publication	BIN 08, 028
Author	Hackman, George G.
Publication date	1958
Museum no.	NBC 06929
Provenience	uncertain (mod. uncertain)
Period	ED IIIb (ca. 2500-2340 BC)
CDLI no.	P221550

ob.c1	transliteration	translation	calculation	remarks
	1. 1(u@c) še gur	10 gur of barley	1x10
	2. sa10 gar3 gesztu-kam	?	-	-sa [PAY FOR] (991x: ED IIIa, ED IIIb, Old Akkadian, Ur III, Early Old Babylonian, Old Babylonian) wr. sa10 "to pay for, buy; to be paid for, sell" Akk. šâmu -gar [CAKE] wr. gar3 "a cake or a baked product", gar [~BREAD] (5x: ED IIIa) wr. gar3 "a designation of breads" -ĝeštu Westenholz, OSP 2, p.85 ad n.76 | aus Silber; s. Foxvog Mesop.8 70:37, -gar [KNOB] (31x: ED IIIa, ED IIIb, Old Akkadian, Ur III, Old Babylonian) wr. gar3 "knob; a unit of measurement" Akk. karru -gar[knob] ĝeštinLEX/Old Babylonian/Nippur muš gar3 ĝeštin-na OB Nippur Ura 3 284.
	3. 5(aš@c) še gur ur5	5 gur ground barley	5x1	-ara [GRIND] (416x: ED IIIb, Lagash II, Ur III, Old Babylonian) wr. ara3 "to grind" Akk. samādu -ara3 (ar3, ur5), ur [PLUCK] (612x: ED IIIb, Old Akkadian, Lagash II, Ur III, Early Old Babylonian, Old Babylonian) wr. ur4; ur5 "to pluck; to gather, collect; to harvest" Akk. baqāmu; eşēdu; hamāmu; kapātu, -ur [BAKE] (3x: Ur III, unknown) wr. ur5; ur3 "to bake" (ur5 and ara3 are the same sign)
ob.c2
	1. dam ur-lugal	spouse of Ur-lugal
	2. nimgir	herald
	3. šu ba-ti	received

[us4-he2-gal2]

Sheshki:




line 2: This 'ĝeštu-kam' problem is driving me nuts! 0_0 I keep thinking it can't be entailing one of the many nuances of 'ear' in Sumerian, which of course have to do with knowledge, wisdom, perception and so forth. But I can't come up with anything else. So maybe it does. As usual, it seems CDLI has spelled a ĝ word with g, reuslting in 'geštu' which means "60".. but according to ePSD, geštu is not wriiten with the ĝeštu/PI sign and we clearly have the ĝeštu/PI sign on the tablet. So unless I am mistaken, we have to explain ĝeštu-kam.


The -kam ending I think is a grammatical construct = (a)k.am that is the genitive (of) + a the 3PS copula (he/she/it is). If the sign is read 'ĝeštu-kam' perhaps this could mean 'it is perceived/understood' ; if it is geštu perhaps it could mean 'it is 60.'