Extraction schedule A — grain quota tablet, Ur III

Origin: University museum, Philadelphia
Dated: c. 2040 BCE
Extent: 1 pages
Status: accepted
Redactions: None.

Chain of custody

Held in an American university museum store since 1931 under an accession number this newspaper has had in its notes since 2023 and did not follow up for three years. Produced from store in nine minutes on request by the curator, who is named in the story and who was mildly baffled that nobody had asked.

Held by: University museum, Philadelphia

Excerpt

rev. col. i, ll. 9–12 (rendering by P. Nkemelu, checked by E. Adeleke-Sørvaag)

   9  ...one hundred and forty gur short of the schedule
  10  ...the overseers of the outer fields did not deliver
  11  ...and the fault was not with the workmen
  12  [seal impression, illegible]

Transcribed by the data desk. Line breaks follow the original. Bracketed matter is ours.

Editor's note

Grain, not gold. Carries the identical closing formula to PX-1207 line 11, which is the finding of our Null Result of 9 August.

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