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view This tablet records numerous oxen, cows, sheep, and goats
which were received from various sources and allocated for
various uses by the livestock bureau at Puzrish-Dagan. Over a
hundred of these animals were received from Naplanum, the
Amorite, who also appears on many other livestock records from
Puzrish-Dagan (see Giorgio Buccellati, Amorites of the Ur III
Period [Naples: Istituto Orientale DI Napoli, 1966], esp. pp.
238, 248, 252, 301, and 356-9). The Amorites, called Martu in
Sumerian, emerged as a distinct ethnic group, characterized by a
rural, clan-based mode of life, in Mesopotamia and Syria during
the late 3rd millennium BCE. Some Amorites were integrated into
the Ur III state, while others engaged in hostilities with it.
Naplanum seems to have functioned as a representative of
Amorites who dwelt northwest of Akka