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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

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.