The Reconstruction Of The Archive Of Kitchen Official Urnigar Of Tribute Animal Center In Ur-â…¢ Dynasty

A large tribute animal center by the name of the temple of Puzrish-Dagan which is now Drehem site in Iraq was built by the king ?ulgi of Ur III dynasty at his 39th year's dominance. The tribute domestic animal center establishment reason is Ur III dynasty royal power is day by day formidable, royal court and each place governor frequently to each kind of gods offer sacrifice, simultaneously the palace and other official royal court as well as the soldier edible also need the massive domestic animals. These receive and a disbursement job requirement special organization manages. Puzrish-Dagan approaches the religious center Nippur and Tumal, therefore is elected for the central locus. The temple of Puzrish-Dagan was influence profound tribute animal center in ancient Mesopotamia; also it occupied a very important place in the economy of Ur III dynasty.This paper mainly reconstructs the document of Urnigar, who was the kitchen warehouse official of the tribute animal center. There are 535 archives about Urnigar's receiving dead animal at preset we can find. The paper lists the archives of Urnigar in chronological order, then translate them into Chinese and English. We know Urnigar's work time from the 42th year of Sulgi in November to the third year of Amar-??n on April 1, altogether 10 years. Through to his seal, the primitive literature analysis, we had determined Urnigar status is the tribute domestic animal center kitchen warehouse official, primary cognizance processing tribute domestic animal center death domestic animal.In this paper discussed his economic activity. Through to his work contact person's analysis, we see the dead domestic animal mainly to come from three channels: the tribute domestic animal ships the official, the central manager, the temporary cow sheepfold manager. Urnigar possibly process the receive death domestic animal for the slave, soldier's food, perhaps the distribution carries on for the tanner perhaps other artisans processing, the processing and the use.