Selected Multiply Attested Male Citizens in Ur III Umma Texts

Selected Multiply Attested Male Citizens in Ur III Umma Texts Author: Andrew PottorfDate of Release: January 27, 2026License: CC BY 4.0 Recommended Citation APA Format: Pottorf, A. (2026). Selected Multiply Attested Male Citizens in Ur III Umma Texts [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18386403 Chicago Format: Pottorf, Andrew. “Selected Multiply Attested Male Citizens in Ur III Umma Texts.” Zenodo, January 27, 2026. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18386403. If you use or refer to this dataset, please cite it as above and, when appropriate, also cite Pottorf 2022, 281–322. Abstract / Description This dataset compiles quantitative and contextual data on selected multiply attested male citizens in Ur III administrative texts. The data were assembled from all relevant Umma texts accessible in BDTNS up to 2023. Each entry includes references to text editions, transliterations, and citations following BDTNS conventions, with occasional simplification for clarity. Entries record the any combination of the identifications, conscription rates and related details, occupations, and barley or subsistence-land allotments of male citizens. These data permit the reconstruction of several important patterns for male citizens during the Third Dynasty of Ur. Scope and Methodology ● Corpus Coverage: All known Ur III Umma texts with identifiable male citizens that provide any combination of their identifications, conscription rates and related details, occupations, and barley or subsistence-land allotments searchable in BDTNS up to 2023. ● Transliteration Standards: BDTNS, except where otherwise indicated. All Sumerian words are underlined. ● Chronology and Dating: Dates formatted per Pottorf 2022, 14–15. ● Assumptions: Male citizens can be identified by juxtaposition to male UN-il2. ● Limitations: Some conscription periods are not clearly defined. ● Uncertainties: Entries marked (?) when interpretation or restoration is uncertain; see dataset comments. Future versions will include more individuals. Data Format ● File Type: CSV (UTF-8, tabular) ● Primary Fields: PIN, Name(s), Text, BDTNS, CDLI, Line(s), Order, Order Line(s), Observation No. 1, Employment Notation(s), Employment Notation(s) Line(s), Observation No. 2, Conscription Duration, Conscription Dates, Conscription Line(s), Occupation(s) (Sumerian), Occupation(s) (English), Occupation(s) Line(s), Barley Allotment or Subsistence Land (Sumerian), Barley Allotment or Subsistence Land (English), Barley Allotment or Subsistence Land Line(s), Observation No. 3, Comment(s). ● Source Metadata: CDLI and BDTNS identifiers provided where available. Acknowledgements I thank Adam Anderson for guidance on FAIR-compliant data publication and repository best practices. I am grateful to the British Museum and Yale Babylonian Collection for permission to study and collate the texts cited below. Introduction This table includes data regarding the identifications, conscription rates and related details, occupations, and barley or subsistence-land allotments of male citizens in Ur III Umma texts searched up to 2023. All citations, dates, proveniences, and transliterations follow BDTNS (citations are sometimes simplified), unless otherwise stated, and all Sumerian is underlined. Abbreviations follow CDLI. For a recent study on these citizens as a social status, also called order, see Pottorf 2025b. For details regarding notations and allotments, see Pottorf 2022, 177, 179–86, and 192–94, but note that some updates are offered in Pottorf forthcoming a. Barley from allotments or subsistence land is measured in sila3 (ca. 1 liter), and subsistence-land sizes are measured in iku (ca. 0.35 hectares). A few dozen of the individuals tabulated here have been previously tabulated with regard to similar details in Koslova 2008. The connection between individuals in AnOr 1 85 and BPOA 2 2557 is noted in Ozaki and Sigrist 2006, 209. The matching of UNdaga (PIN 281) here is observed in Englund 2003, 5–6. Comments or questions can be sent to apottorf21@gmail.com. The citizens tabulated here are included because they provide evidence for any combination of three observations. Observation No. 1 is that a citizen without an explicit identification juxtaposed to an explicit UN-il2 in one text could be an explicit citizen in another text. Thus, in the first text, their citizenship is inferred from their juxtaposition. Observation No. 2 is that an individual could have various combinations of the notations ½, 1, ½c, and AŠc across multiple texts. Observation No. 3 is that an individual receiving an unspecified amount of subsistence land (gan2 PN) in one text could have a specified amount in another text (|field| means a field description lost to damage). The utilized texts are given below in an approximately chronological and then alphabetical orders. Note that some dates are justified with various explanations but that these assertions may be subject to change. SAT 2 77 (Š 33/vi/-). BM 106132 (Š 42/xii/-). The date is based on Ea-lubi, Ku-Šara, Lugal-gigire, and Iminani-zi (BM 106132 obv. ii 5–6, rev. ii 4–5; CUSAS 39 127 obv. iii 2'–3'; Torino 2 706 A rev. iii' 4'). Note that E2 should E2-a-lu2-bi in BM 106132 obv. ii 5. This unusually abbreviated name is confirmed by a visit to the British Museum. NATN 25 (Š 43*/-/-). Nebraska 37 (Š 43/-/-). MVN 21 199 (Š 47/xiii*/-). Nisaba 23 2 (Š 47/-/-). Nisaba 23 46 (Š 48/-/-). SNAT 311 (AS 1/viii*/-). BPOA 6 897 (AS 1/-/-). Nik. 2 236 (AS 1/-/-). CDLI P406944 (AS 2/vii/-). SNAT 332 (AS 2/vii/-). Nisaba 34 1186 (AS 2/xi*/-). MVN 16 956 (AS 2/-/-). Nisaba 34 240 (AS 2/-/-). OrSP 47-49 324 (AS 2/-/-). SNAT 325 (AS 2/-/-). YOS 4 150 (AS 2/-/-). CUSAS 39 131 (AS 3/v/-). CUSAS 39 132 (AS 3/v/-). Nisaba 34 1197 (AS 3/v*/-). Organisation administrative, Diss., T. 7, Talon-Vanderroost 2, 217 (AS 3/v/-). BPOA 6 1385 (AS 3/vii*/-). MVN 18 545 (AS 3/viii/-). Princeton 1 367 (AS 3/viii*/-). BIN 5 272 (AS 3/xii*/-). TCL 5 5674 (AS 3/xii*/-). CUSAS 39 128 (AS 3/-/-). Santag 6 384 ([-]/[-]/[-]). The date is around AS 3 based on Lugal-magure, Lugal-ezem, Šara-bazige, and Ir-duga (CUSAS 39 134 rev. i 3, 5, 7, 9; Santag 6 384 rev. iii 4'–5', 8'–9'). Santag 7 32 ([-]/[-]/[-]). The date to around AS 3 based on Šara-izu, Abba-gena, and Ur-Suen (CUSAS 39 128 obv. ii 37, iii 5–6; Santag 7 32 obv. ii' 2', 10'–11'). MVN 5 27 (AS 4*/i*/-). Princeton 1 388 (AS 4/iv*/28*). CDLI P421274 (AS 4/vii/-). JCS 28, 219 37 (AS 4/viii*/-). SAT 2 829 (AS 4/ix*/-). AnOr 1 85 (AS 5*/xii*/-). For the date, see Koslova 2008, 175 and Pottorf 2022, 205. YOS 4 244 (AS 4/xii/-). SAKF 83 (AS 4/xiii*/-). TCL 5 5675 (AS 4/xiii*/-). MVN 21 52 (AS 4/-/-). UCP 9-2-1 100 (AS 4/-/-). SAT 2 883 (AS 5/vi*/20*). CUSAS 39 127 (AS 5/vii/15). CUSAS 39 133 (AS 5/vii/15). CUSAS 39 140 (AS 5/vii/[ ]). The date is based on Ur-Halmuša, Ur-E’e, Ur-Suen, Šešani, Ur-Kalkal, A-dingirga, Lu-lugal, Urani, Inim-Šara, Ur-Ninazu, Šeš-kala, Šara-ayamu, Šeš-kala, Lugal-hare, Lugal-ezem, Namtar-ibgul, Šu-imbi, Lugal-nirgal, Gir-Šara-idab, Girne-isa, Ur-Šulpae, and Lu-Ninura (CUSAS 39 128 obv. iii 25; 135 rev. v 4 [CDLI], 5, 7, 9–10, 19, 21, 23–25, 27, 29, 33, 35, 37, 39–40, 42, vi 1; 140 obv. i 14' [CDLI], 16' [CDLI], 20' [CDLI], 22', 23' [based on context, this individual is notated with aš], ii 4', 7', 9'–10', 12'–14', 16'–17'–20', 22', 24', iii 18', 21' [CDLI], rev. i 18; Nisaba 34 1197 obv. i 6, ii 10; Organisation administrative, Diss., T. 12, Talon-Vanderroost 5, 230 obv. i 5). BDTNS 196758 ([-]/[-]/[-]). While the reverse is not available, this text predates Organisation administrative, Diss., T. 6, Talon-Vanderroost 1, 202-210 based on Nabalu and Lugal-šunire (BDTNS 196758 obv. ii 1, 4; Organisation administrative, Diss., T. 6, Talon-Vanderroost 1, 202-210 rev. ii 3, 6). Organisation administrative, Diss., T. 6, Talon-Vanderroost 1, 202-210 ([-]/[-]/[-]). For the possible date, see Pottorf 2022, 133 n. 185 for the possible date. Here, its date is approximated as AS 5/xii/-. CUSAS 39 129 (AS 5/-/-). MVN 8 231 (AS 6/i*/-). The date is based on Alli (or Allimu) and Lugal-hegal (MVN 8 231 obv. 1–2; Nisaba 6 10 obv. i 16 [collated in the table here], 17). AnOr 7 301 ([-]/[-]/[-]). This text predates CUSAS 39 135 based on two Lu-Šara’s and Tirgu (AnOr 7 301 obv. ii' 3, 18, iii' 23; CUSAS 39 135 obv. i 40, ii 11, 37). Nisaba 23 9 (-/-/-). This text predates CUSAS 39 135 based on Tirgu (Nisaba 23 9 obv. i 9; CUSAS 39 135 obv. ii 11). This text also postdates AnOr 7 301 based on Durgarni (AnOr 7 301 obv. ii' 18; Nisaba 23 9 obv. i 8). Note that the diš signs in this text simply count individuals rather than notate them as full-time (see also Pottorf 2022, 283 n. 371). CUSAS 39 135 (AS 6/v*/-). For the date, see the comment regarding the date for CUSAS 39 140. BPOA 1 369 (AS 6/x*/-). The date is based on Lu-melam, Ur-Damgalnunka, Dudubi (or Dudumu) Lugal-magure, and Ane-babdu (BPOA 1 369 obv. 1, 3–5, 8; Nisaba 23 9 rev. i 18–21, ii 5; TCL 5 5674 obv. i 3', ii 26–28, iii 15', rev. ii 15, v 18–20). CUSAS 39 130 (AS 6/xi/-). BCT 2 288 (AS 6/xii/-). Nisaba 6 10 (AS 6/xii/-). Nisaba 26 17 (AS 6/xii/-). The date is based on Ur-Šulpae, Arad-Šara, Ur-Bilgames, and Šešani (Nisaba 26 17 obv. 2–3, rev. 5–6; Organisation administrative, Diss., T. 6, Talon-Vanderroost 1, 202-210 obv. ix 17–18; T. 7, Talon-Vanderroost 2, 217 obv. ii 15–16; Santag 6 384 rev. vi' 2'–3'). YOS 4 232 (AS 6/xii/-). The date is based on Ur-e-ana, Šara-kam, Ur-Saman, Šešani, and Ur-mes (AAICAB 1/1 Ashm. 1924-0665 obv. i 18–19, 24, 36; Organisation administrative, Diss., T. 6, Talon-Vanderroost 1, 202-210 rev. iii 27'; Torino 2 704 obv. ii 7; YOS 4 232 obv. i 10, ii 16–17, rev. i 22, ii 5, 23). AAICAB 1/1 Ashm. 1924-0665 (AS 6/xiii*/-). The date is based on Ur-e-ana, Šara-kam, and Šešani (AAICAB 1/1 Ashm. 1924-0665 obv. i 18–19,