The receipt says: “29,086 measures barley 37 months Kushim”. The most probable reading of this sentence is: “A total of 29,086 measures of barley were received over the course of 37 months. Signed, Kushim.”
The tablet is written in proto cuneiform, the earliest format of real writing – its basically got numbers, nouns and a limited list of verbs, but no grammatical elements… so we don’t know that it was past tense, it’s just a guess – but a reasonable one:
We know Kushim signed about a dozen other tablets listing various transactions, which were always either receiving, or disbursing grain. Proto debits and credits, if you will.
The distribution of grain has a recipient and a purpose (e.g., to four different people to make beer), and usually does not have a time frame.
The receipts have a time frame, and sometimes a source (sort of a “tax receipt”).
The thought is that basically, when the grain came in it’d be tallied, then tablets would be added noting recipients and purpose until it had been disbursed.
It’s also worth noting that clay tablets are challenging to date, and there’s an (as far as I know, ongoing) debate about whether “kushim” was an individual, or an office (e.g., “grain wrangler”).
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TIL that the first person in history we know the name of was an ordinary accountant named Kushim. He used his name to sign a clay tablet receipt for barley shipments, around 3100 BC. (www.nationalgeographic.com)
The receipt says: “29,086 measures barley 37 months Kushim”. The most probable reading of this sentence is: “A total of 29,086 measures of barley were received over the course of 37 months. Signed, Kushim.”
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