Kulturní vývoj asijského a afrického kontinentu
Lukáš Pecha (ed.)
Katedra blízkov ýchodních studií Filozofická fakulta Z ápadočeská univer zita v Plzni https://doi.org/10.24132/ZCU.2018.07446
2018
Kulturní vývoj asijského a afrického kontinentu
Lukáš Pecha (ed.)
Kulturní vývoj asijského a afrického kontinentu Editor: Lukáš Pecha Tato publikace byla vydána díky finanční podpoře v rámci projektu Studentská vědecká konference, č. SVK1-2017-014. Vydání publikace bylo schváleno Vědeckou redakcí Západočeské univerzity v Plzni. Odborní recenzenti: prof. PhDr. Ladislav Bareš, CSc. doc. PhDr. Václav Marek, CSc. Typografická úprava: Jakub Pokorný Grafický návrh obálky: Iveta Hostašová Vydala: Západočeská univerzita v Plzni P.O.Box 314, Univerzitní 8, 306 14 Plzeň První vydání, 264 stran Pořadové číslo: 2276, ediční číslo: 55-067-17 Plzeň 2018 https://doi.org/10.24132/ZCU.2018.07446 ISBN 978-80-261-0744-6 © Autoři © Západočeská univerzita v Plzni 2
Předmluva Příspěvky vydané v předkládané publikaci jsou zaměřeny na zkoumání rozličných aspektů vývoje kulturních tradic v oblasti, která zahrnuje rozsáhlá území na asijském kontinentu a v přilehlých regionech severovýchodní Afriky. Největší pozornost je věnována náboženským tradicím, které se projevují v nejrůznějších oblastech života; od lidových obyčejů spojených s uzavíráním sňatku, přes odraz náboženských představ v jazyce až po uctívání božstev a duchů. Stranou však nezůstaly ani otázky související s materiální základnou, z níž vyrůstají kořeny duchovních hodnot. Cílem publikace je demonstrovat širokou škálu a rozmanitost projevů náboženského cítění, které představují neodmyslitelnou součást kulturního vývoje starých civilisací na asijském a africkém kontinentu. Jednotlivé příspěvky, které shrnují výsledky dílčích výzkumů badatelů z mnoha pracovišť v České a Slovenské republice, byly presentovány na XVII. ročníku kolokvia Orientalia Antiqua Nova, které uspořádala Katedra blízkovýchodních studií Filosofické fakulty Západočeské university v Plzni v dubnu 2017. Věříme, že předkládaná publikace bude užitečným zdrojem informací i inspirace pro širokou zainteresovanou veřejnost a podnítí další spolupráci při výzkumu starých asijských a afrických civilisací. Lukáš Pecha editor
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Obsah Předmluva ......................................................................................... 3 1. KAPITOLA. MATERIÁLNÍ ZÁKLADNA ........................................... 6 Sergio Alivernini The Management and Uses of Water Resources in Mesopotamia at the End of the Third Millennium ....................... 7 Pavel Král Relikty opevněných sídlišť v okolí Mosulu ..................................... 23 Jakub Maršálek Počátky zemědělského osídlení Tibetu ........................................... 46 Martina Bucková Migračné prúdy v Oceánii. Realita a fikcia o pôvode obyvateľov Polynézie ...................................................................... 69 2. KAPITOLA. PODOBY NÁBOŽENSKÉHO CÍTĚNÍ .......................... 80 Marie Ondříčková Rytmické nástroje typu „idiofony“ z Blízkého východu – Levanty, Mezopotámie, Egypta, Anatolie a Íránu ....................... 81 Kateřina Šašková Svátek akītu v novoasyrském období ........................................... 102 David Rafael Moulis Rušení svatyní v Judském království: archeologické doklady z 10.–8. století př. Kr. ............................... 122 4
Pavel Čech Ugaritica Antiqua Nova 7: Písařské tendence ve starověké Syropalestině .......................................................... 136 Alexandra Pastoreková Kto je ten Riman? Rímsky cisár a jeho kult v Egypte ................... 146 Tomáš Retka Fenomén šugnánské svatby .......................................................... 161 Štěpán Kuchlei Duchové Kambodži – živá tradice ................................................. 170 Lucie Vinšová Sakrální a královská khmerština ................................................... 178 Admira Delić Hidden legacy: Fāṭima bint cAbbās al-Baghdādiyyah and female scholars of Islam ....................................................... 186 Martin Klapetek Muslimské minority v Evropě jako reprezentanti jinakosti .......... 204 Lukáš Větrovec Salaf, salafíja, salafismus: vnitřní a vnější perspektivy ............... 221 Summary ....................................................................................... 263
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1. KAPITOLA MATERIÁLNÍ ZÁKLADNA
Sergio Alivernini 1
The Management and Uses of Water Resources in Mesopotamia at the End of the Third Millennium 2 1 Procedures relating to earthworks The role of irrigation management in the development of the first urban societies in Mesopotamia is still an important topic of discussion among philologists, archaeologists and historians. Since the mid-twentieth century, the development of the Mesopotamian civilization has been seen as being intrinsically linked to the building of water-related infrastructure (dams, canals, etc.) in order to “tame” the environment. Therefore, earthwork projects and the building of reservoirs, dams and canals became crucial in the development of society and the survival of cities at the end of the third Millennium. The majority of the available documentation stems from the end of the third Millennium, in the so-called Ur III (or Third Dynasty of Ur) period (2112–2004 BC). This period, which is also called the Neo-Sumerian 1 The author wishes to wholeheartedly thank the “Gerda Henkel Foundation” for the opportunity to develop this research project. Special thanks also go to Petr Charvát and Lukáš Pecha for inviting me to present my recent research findings. In particular, paragraph 1 presents a study that is currently in press (see bibliography), while paragraph 2 presents some hints regarding a study that is currently in preparation by the author (see footnote 31). 2 The abbreviations used in this article are listed on the “Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative” (CDLI) web-site, accessed on May 25th 2017, http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/ abbreviations_for_assyriology. Moreover, the following abbreviations are also used in this article: AS: Amar-Suena; IS: Ibbi-Sîn; Š: Šulgi; ŠS: Šū-Sîn, which, when followed by numbers, indicate the year, month and day of the reign (YY/mm/DD)
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Period, encompasses the reigns of five kings from the same family who succeeded to the throne of Ur, the southernmost of the Mesopotamian cities:3 • • • • •
Ur-Namma; Šulgi; Amar-Suena; Šū-Sîn; Ibbi-Sîn.4
The administrative activities of the Third Dynasty of Ur is documented by means of a large number of textual records, especially of an economic nature, resulting from the primary role which bureaucracy played in the administration of every level of the State. There are, more or less, 100,000 known texts from this period but probably there are also hundreds of thousands of additional items kept in the museums of the world, or which have yet to be excavated. More than the 95 % of the documentation is of an administrative nature and records all those aspects linked to the management and organization of the Empire: production units (mills, fields, orchards, etc.), accounts of cattle numbers, the labour-force and goods, food assignments to workers, letter-orders and so on. Among these texts, we find several documents describing the building and repairing of canals or their components. These works would have required the use of different materials (in accordance with the type of facility to be built), with the most important definitely being earth. We can see this, for example, in the case of Aleppo 201 (Š 48/x/-):5 At this time, the city of Eridu, which lies more to the south, was probably in a marshland area, and was, with all probability, only utilized as a sanctuary to the god Enki. 4 While the order of succession of these kings is certain, there are doubts as to the relationship between them, apart from the paternity of the first towards the second. Michalowski 2013, 316–317 proposed that the third king, Amar-Suena, was the son of Šulgi’s brother and that the fourth and fifth were sons of Šulgi but from different wives. 5 Other texts recording the use of earth for building and repairing canals or their components are, for example, Syracuse 276 (AS 8/-/-) or UTI 4 2463 (ŠS 4/xii/-). 3
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Obverse:
Obverse:
10 guruš u4 2-še3
10 workers for 2 days
i7 En-lil2-la2-ka
in the Enlil canal
sahar si-ga
piling up earth
ugula Gu2-TAR
the supervisor is Gu2-tar
kišib A-kal-la
seal of A-kal-la
Reverse:
Reverse:
iti ezem- Šul-gi
Month 10
d
d
Seal:
Seal:
mu Ha-ar-ši Ki-maš ba-hul
Year: Harši and Kimaš were destroyed
Seal:
Seal:
[A -kal-la]
[A?-kal-la]
[dub-sar (?)]
[scribe]?
dumu Lugal-[e2-mah-e]?
son of Lugal-[e2-mah-e]?
ki
?
As already noted by Civil,6 works involving earthmoving can be divided into sahar si-ga “to pile up earth”, sahar zi-ga “to remove earth”, sahar šu-ti “to collect earth”, sahar šu bal-a “to transport earth”. We must also add ba-al-la “to dig”, and šu / šu luh…ak “to clean (the bed of a watercourse)”. These activities were necessary when building irrigation canals (pa4 / pa5 or i7), banks (e), tanks and reservoirs for water control (kab2-ku5 or a-ga-am), barrages for waterways (a-igi), dams (giš keš2) and mud walls (im-DU8-a). The procedure followed when preparing an earthwork included the following steps:7 1. Survey for the collection of raw data; 2. Calculation of the total work (in terms of the number of workers to be paid); 3. Calculation of the cost of the work. Civil 1994, 115. Alivernini (in press).
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More than other items, the information that is most important for administration purposes is, of course, the final one: the total cost of the work. The first step in the process was to conduct a survey to gather the basic information needed for the work, i.e. the quantity of earth to be moved. About twenty texts that specifically measure the amount of earth to be excavated come from the city of Umma. We can divide these documents into two main types.8 Type 1:9 • The measurement of the length (gid2), width (dagal) and depth (buru3); • The calculation of the total volume (sahar-bi x sar10), which results from the product of the length, width11 and depth recorded in the preceding line; • The total sum of the lengths12 (šu-nigin2 x gid2); • The total sum of the volumes (sahar-bi x sar); • Other administrative information (such as the kind of work, the place, the supervisors etc.). Type 2:13 • The measurement of the length (gid2) and volume of the earth to be excavated for every unit of length (which is highlighted in the expression x sar-ta); See Civil 1994, 116, where these formulations are discussed and examples are provided. 9 See, for example, BPOA 7 2445 (unknown date). 10 Or “kin-bi x sar”. 11 In three texts belonging to this type (SAT 2 210 [Š 39/-/-], MVN 16 961 [ŠS 6/‑/‑] and CUSAS 3 1513 [unknown date] the width is recorded only in the first set of measurements as it is constant throughout the text (2 nindan [12 meters] in SAT 2 210, ½ nindan [3 meters] and 2 kuš [1 meter] in MVN 16 961 and 1 ½ nindan [9 meters] in CUSAS 3 1513). 12 Sometimes, this information cannot be recorded. See, for example, Syracuse 459 (Š 46/-/-). 13 See, for example, AAICAB 1/3, Bod. S 157 (unknown date). 8
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• The calculation of the total volume of earth to be excavated (sahar-bi x sar14), which results from the product of sar and the length recorded in the preceding line; • The total sum of the lengths15 (šu-nigin2 x gid2); • The total sum of the volumes (sahar-bi x sar); • Other administrative information (such as the kind of work, the place, the supervisors etc.). Once the total volume of the earth had been calculated, the second step was to calculate how many workers were needed to complete the work. This calculation was based on a number representing the daily amount of earth to be excavated by one worker. In the case of Ur III, this number was fixed in accordance with convention by the central administration in order to predict and manage the expenditure on labour. The daily amount of earth to be excavated by one worker was 10 gin2,16 that is 3 m3 (or 7½ gin2,17 2.25 m3, depending on the type of land). Even this quantity is recorded in the texts. See, for example, MVN 21 150 (ŠS 5/viii/-).
Or “kin-bi x sar”. Sometimes, this information cannot be recorded. See, for example, SNAT 398 (AS 8/-/-). 16 For extensive information on cuneiform metrologies, see Powell 1987–1990. 17 It is worth pointing out, however, that, in Ur III documentation, other three work norms also appear: 5 gin2 (1.5 m3) in MVN 16 1337 (Š 42/xiii/-) and BPOA 7 1711 (Š 46/-/-); 13 gin2 (3.9 m3) in OLP 17-70 n. 52 (AS 1/-/-) and BPOA 1 625 (ŠS 3/-/-); and 6 gin2 (1.8 m3) in BPOA 6 1538 (AS 5/-/-). 14 15
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Obverse:
Obverse:
5/6 sar kin sahar-ra
15 m3 of earthwork
guruš-e 10 gin2-ta
the workers’ work is 3 m3 per (day)
a2 lu2 hun-ga2
work of hired-men
i7-Id2-sal4-la šu-luh ak
to clean the bed of the canal of Idsala
ugula Ur-lugal
the supervisor is Ur-lugal
Reverse:
Reverse:
kišib Da-da-ga
seal of Da-da-ga
Seal:
Seal:
iti e2-iti-6
Month 8
mu us2-sa Šu- /Suen lugal-e bad3 mar-/tu mu-du3
Year after year: Šū-Sîn, the king of Ur, built the martu wall
Seal:
Seal:
Da-da-ga
Da-da-ga
d
d
dub-sar
scribe
dumu Ur-nigarx šuš3 gar
son of Ur-nigarx, the high official
In order to calculate the number of workers needed to construct an earthwork, the ancient scribe had simply to divide the total volume by the coefficient representing the daily amount of earth to be excavated by one worker: Total Volume ÷ Coefficient = Number of Workers At this point, the scribe knew exactly how many workers would be needed to complete the earthwork. To calculate the total cost of an earthwork, the scribe had now to simply multiply the number of workers by the number representing the amount of daily barley that these workers received. We know, from the texts, that every worker was usually paid in the region of ca. 6 litres of barley per day.18 This information is recorded in several texts. See, for example, BPOA 1 971 (AS 2/-/-): 18 For a general overview of the payment of workers in the Ur III period, see Waetzoldt 1987 and Sallaberger 1999, 308.
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Obverse:
Obverse:
5 sar kin sahar
90 m3 of earthwork
a2 lu2 hun-ga2 6 sila3-ta
the hired-man’s work is paid at the rate of 6 litres per (day)
a-ša3 a-geštin
in the field a-geštin
ugula Lugal-e2-mah-e
the supervisor is Lugal-e2-mah-e
Reverse:
Reverse:
kišib Lugal-e2-mah-e
seal of Lugal-e2-mah-e
šeš Lugal-giškiri6
brother of Lugal-giškiri6
mu dAmar-dSuen lugal-e / Ur-bi2lumki mu-hul
Year: Amar-Suena, the King, destroyed Urbilum
Seal:
Seal:
Lugal-e2-mah-e
Lugal-e2-mah-e
dub-sar
scribe
dumu Lugal-ku3-ga-ni
son of Lugal-ku3-ga-ni
Now, the scribe had all the information needed to calculate the total cost of the project, just by multiplying the total number of workers by the amount of daily barley that these workers were to receive. Number of Workers × Daily Barley = Total Expense of the Project It must be stressed that the sequence described above is assumed by reference to administrative texts that show only the data: we do not have texts showing how the actual calculations were made or how the measurements were taken. Evidence of calculations is uncommon in Ur III documentation. After the calculations had been jotted down, they were probably erased by the scribe because “Good scribes never shows their working”.19 What the Sumerians show us is only the final results of all the operations, as described, for example, in Princeton 2 466 (Š 47/-/-):
Robson 2008, 78.
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Obverse:
Obverse:
95 sar kin sahar
1710 m3 of earthwork
Id2-sal-laki ba-al-la
to dig in the centre of Idsala
a2 lu2 hun-ga2 bi 6 sila3-ta
hired-man work is paid at a rate of 6 litres per day
še-bi 11.2.0 gur
the total amount of barley is 3,420 litres
kišib Lugal-e2-mah-e
seal of Lugal-e2-mah-e
Reverse:
Reverse:
Seal:
Seal:
Inim- Šara2 i3-dab5
Inim-dŠara2 takes charge of
mu us2-sa Ki-maški ba-hul
Year after year: Kimaš was destroyed
Seal:
Seal:
Lugal-e2-mah-e
Lugal-e2-mah-e
dub-sar
scribe
dumu Lugal-ku3-ga-ni
son of Lugal-ku3-ga-ni
d
In this tablet, for example, just three pieces of data are recorded: • the total volume of the earth to be excavated (95 sar, i.e. 1,710 m3); • the amount of daily barley that these workers received (6 sila3, i.e. 6 litres); • the total cost of the project in terms of the cost of barley (11 gur and 2 bariga, i.e. 3,420 litres) In any case, with these data it would have been impossible to write the tablet, since, without the number of workers, it would have been impossible to calculate the total amount of barley required. This means that the scribe had made the calculation before writing the document. Let’s try to imagine the procedure that lies behind this tablet: once the scribe knew the total amount of earth to be excavated, he needed to calculate the number of workers. Then, the first step was to divide the total quantity of earth to be excavated (1710 m3) 14
by the quantity of earth to be excavated by each worker (which was, as mentioned before, fixed by convention: 3 m3 for each worker20). In this way the scribe arrived at the number of workers needed to complete the earthwork: 1710 ÷ 3 = 570 Now, in order to calculate the total expense in terms of barley, the scribe had simply to multiply the total number of workers by the daily amount of barley received by these workers (6 litres). 570 × 6 = 3,420 litres, which is exactly the total quantity of barley recorded on the tablet. From an administrative point of view, we do not know anything about the person or people who were endowed with the authority to commission, i.e. to order, a new hydraulic project. As already identified by S. Rost, the dominant theory that claims there was a centralized irrigation management plan during the Third Dynasty of Ur has not been established with an absolute degree of certainty;21 comparisons made on an ethnographic basis, combined with different points of view in relation to the archaeological and epigraphical documentation, lead the author to assert that “It is also evident that irrigation can be organized in many different ways and thus centralized management is just one possibility. In addition, many ethnographic case studies provide evidence for varying degrees of centralization as is seen when the state government only organizes a certain aspect of irrigation such as water distribution ”.22 In any case, we need to highlight the fact that the interrelationship between irrigation management and political power in Mesopotamia is thought to have been so important that the development of a centralized political dominance must have been accompanied by a comprehensive system of control in relation to water resources.23 See footnote 17. Rost 2011, 212–213. 22 Rost 2011, 213. 23 De Maaijer 1998, 57; Hruška 1988, 27; Renger 1990, 38–39. 20 21
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2 Transportation via waterways The canalization system was not only important for cultivation. The Tigris and Euphrates, along with their tributaries and canals, represented more than just a means of irrigating crops for people who lived along their banks. They also served, in fact, as the major highways of Mesopotamia, with the inhabitants of this region developing their own local types of watercraft. Maritime activities, both on the rivers and on the sea, were an essential part of Mesopotamian economy in the third Millennium BC. Mesopotamia, due to its alluvial nature, was a region lacking in significant natural resources, such as metals and stone, the only exception being date palms and trees. With the development of civilization, the importation from neighbouring countries of those resources not locally available, as well as trade via waterways, played a decisive role in the Mesopotamian economy. As described by M. Rice, “the two rivers themselves were the most expeditious and direct means for trade to flow from the Gulf, up through Sumer proper, onwards towards the Mediterranean into what was to become Assyria, travelling further north still, into Anatolia and to the west across the Upper Sea, possibly as far as the distant Cyprus”.24 Moreover, M. De Graeve points out that “the riverboats were occasionally a symbol of royalty and were sometimes used for religious purposes, but they were more often an indispensable method of transportation both for armies during campaign and for the local population in trade and other daily activities”.25 In the Ur III period the traffic along waterways was very extensive and we can divide it into two types: • transportation by sea; • inland traffic, making use of the two rivers and the canals. With regard to transportation by sea, we need to state that if a Mesopotamian scribe from the third millennium BC had been asked Rice 1994, 266. De Graeve 1981, 186.
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which countries lay alongside the Lower Sea (the Arabian Sea), he would undoubtedly have answered with a triad of names: Dilmun (the Bahrain archipelago), Magan (part of what is now Oman) and Meluhha (probably placed on the west coast of the Indus Valley).26 In exchange for copper, tin, lapis lazuli, ivory and timber, Mesopotamia exported manufactured goods (textiles) and perishable commodities (barley, dates and sesame oil). Furthermore, in the Ur III period inland traffic along the two rivers and canals was even more extensive than by sea. Ship voyages are documented, for example, between Drehem and Sagdana, Umma and Nippur, and between Ĝirsu and Susa.27 In addition, a collection of documents from Ĝirsu concerning boats of various capacities travelling from the Ĝirsu / Lagaš province to the capital Ur provides concrete evidence in relation to how the province’s taxes were actually collected.28 All these trips are recorded in several texts and we can often reconstruct the routes followed by the ships, the watercourses that were used and even the stops the ships made along the routes. See, for example, the following text (SNAT 495 – ŠS 4/-/-), which records a round trip between Umma and Nippur:29
Leemans 1960 and Heimpel 1987, 1988 and 1993. Lafont 2010, 174–178. 28 Sharlach 2004, 86–90; Lafont 2010, 169–174. 29 For a reconstruction of the routes in Umma province, see Steinkeller 2001. 26 27
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Obverse:
Obverse:
15 guruš u4 6-še3
15 men for 6 days
Ummaki-ta kar-še3 zi3 ninda ga6-ga2
carrying flour (and) bread from Umma to the quay (of Umma)
kar-ta u4 6-še3
for 6 days from the quay
ka i7 KA-sahar-ka-še3 ma2 gid2-da
to the inlet of the Kasahar canal, towing the boat (upstream)
u4 1-še3 ka i7 KA-sahar-ka-ta
for 1 day from the inlet of the Kasahar canal
Nibruki-še3 ma2 diri-ga
to Nippur, floating the boat (downstream)
u4 2-še3 Nibruki ma2 ba-al-la
for 2 days unloading the boat in Nippur
u4 2-še3 Nibruki-ta
for 2 days from Nippur
ka i7 KA-sahar-ka-še3 ma2 gid2-da
to the inlet of the Kasahar canal, towing the boat (upstream)
u4 2-še3 ka i7 <KA>-sahar-ka-ta
for 2 days from the inlet of the Kasahar canal
Reverse:
Reverse:
kar Ummaki-še3 ma2 diri-ga
to the quay of Umma, floating the boat (downstream)30
erased line
erased line
ugula A-gu
the supervisor is A-gu
kišib nam-ša3-tam Lu2-kal-la
Seal of the administrative office of Lu2-kal-la
mu bad3 mar-tu ba-du3
Year: martu wall was built
Seal:
Seal:
Lu2-kal-la
Lu2-kal-la
dub-sar
scribe
dumu Ur-nigarx šuš3 gar
son of Ur-Nigarx the high official
A30 This translation is taken from Steinkeller 2001, 58.
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Moreover, we should highlight the fact that canals were also used not only to link major centres in different provinces, but also agricultural fields and village within the same province.31 See, for example, ITT 3 5102 – AS 7/vi/-, which records the thirty-day trip of a boat from the village32 of Gišnimbar du3-a to Ĝirsu: Obverse:
Obverse:
30 guruš u4 30-še3
30 workers for 30 days
Gišnimbar du3-a-ta
from Gišnimbar du3-a
Gir2-su -še3 ma2 še gid2-da
to Ĝirsu, towing the boat (upstream)
ugula Ur-mes
the supervisor is Ur-mes
Reverse:
Reverse:
gir3 Ur-bad3-dab5-ra
via Ur-bad3-dab5-ra
blank space
blank space
ki
iti ezem- Dumu-zi
month 6
mu Hu-hu-nu-ri ba-hul
Year: Huhunuri was destroyed
d
ki
3 Conclusion To sum up, the administrative procedures relating to earthwork projects included several operations. These operations ranged from the calculation of the volume (by means of measurements taken on site in relation to the length, width and depth of the earth to be excavated) to the calculation, through the use of a constant, of the number of workers and, consequently, the expense to be incurred in terms of barley. This system had two functions: the provision of both 31 An article regarding ports, harbours and routes in the province of Ĝirsu / Lagaš at the end of the 3rd millennium is currently in preparation by the author. 32 This centre is defined as “village” (e2-duru5) in AfO 24 pl.17 Truro 1 (Š 36/-/-). The same text also records that this village is in the Ĝirsu / Lagaš province since it lists fields measured at Ĝirsu (rev. iv, 7-8: a-ša3 gid2-da / Gir2-suki); in rev. i, 1, one can read 0.0.4 ½ ¼ gan2 e2-duru5 // Gišnimbar du3-a. This centre also had fields (see, for example, MVN 06 482 [Š 40 /-/-]) and warehouses (see, for example, MVN 12 371 [AS 7/vi /-]).
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