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Receipt of sheep and goats, 2046 BCE
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Summary: This tablet, from the state livestock collection center at Puzriš-Dagan, documents the birth of lambs and kids to animals that were under the center’s administration, and hands them to a named individual for rearing.
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Record of grain
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Summary: A small, rather damaged tablet recording the disbursement of grain for various reasons.
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Roman Catholic Church antiphonals
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Twelve examples of manuscript music scores used by the Roman Catholic Church in Europe. The texts are in Latin. The music notes are a type of mensural notation. The media is ink on vellum., Six examples are circa 1400-1600., One example is from Italy and dates circa 1400., One example is two sheets of an illuminated score dating from circa 1631 AD., The music of one example comes from the Ordinary of the Mass. Ca. 1400-1600., One example is a facsimile of a page of the Fust and Schoeffer Psalter., One example is music from the Ordinary of the Mass. The source of this 19th century facsimile may be from the monastery of Santo Domingo de Silos (Spain)., One example is an original illuminated page possibly from the monastery of Santo Domingo de Silos (Spain)., The collection also includes three examples of sacred texts. One is the text from a French missal done by hand 65 years before Guttenberg of Mainz invented the moveable type printing press., Another is a facsimile of an illuminated manuscript, the text of which comes from the Book of Psalms. The third is an unidentified sacred text circa 1400-1600.
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Royal inscription of Sîn-kāšid on a votive cone
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Summary: This clay cone bears a well-known votive inscription for Sîn-kāšid, king of Uruk,
commemorating the (re)building of the goddess Inana’s temple E-ana at Uruk. The text, a variant of FSU
25, is published as RIME 4.4.1.3.
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Royal inscription of Sîn-kāšid on a votive tablet
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This tablet bears a well-known votive inscription for Sîn-kāšid, king of Uruk, commemorating the (re)building of the goddess Inanna’s temple Eanna at Uruk. The text, a variant of FSU 24, is published as RIME 4.4.1.4., Date, dimensions, and translation from Clark and Robson (2009).
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Sealed account of agricultural labor
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Summary: Like FSU 23, this tablet records an agricultural labor team’s maintenance work on fields in which crops are growing. It calculates the theoretical labor expended on the basis of standardized work rates, distinguishing between regular team members (erin2) and hired labor (lu2 huĝ-ĝa2). There are no toponyms or officials’ names to help identify its provenance, but almost all such accounts are from Umma.
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Sealed account of agricultural labor, 2039 BCE
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Summary: At Umma the management of state-owned land was contracted to teams of twenty or so agricultural laborers headed by an overseer. Running accounts were kept which recorded work owed and work performed year by year (Englund 1991). This tablet records weeding activities in three well known fields in the Umma district.
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Sealed note about reed bundles, 2042 BCE
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Summary: A note about reed bundles. Reeds were a staple crop of Umma, on the edge of the southern Iraqi marshes. They were used as building materials and to weave a variety of mats, baskets, and other everyday objects.
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Sealed receipt of fodder for sacrificial sheep, 2026 BCE
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Summary: Animals were sacrificed daily to Šara, the city god of Umma. Although this tablet does not say so explicitly, this must also have been the fate of the sheep recorded here, given the recipient’s known connection to the temple household.
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Sententiarum of Peter Lombard
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Title supplied by cataloger., In Latin, Written in extremely minute characters on uterine vellum; penwork decorations in red and blue
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Sermones discipuli
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Summary: Manuscript, probably of German provenance, dating from the 15th century., Written in one hand, in Gothic cursive script.--Rubricated, Approximately 17 pages wanting; part of 1 column torn but bulk of text in clean condition, Contemporary monastic binding, heavy wooden boards with remains of leather covering, brass cornerpieces and 10 brass bosses, clasps wanting; leaves from an earlier manuscript on vellum have been used for linings; hubbed spine exposed; heavy metal ring with three links of chain attached
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