摘要：§1 Two Ur III tablets were recently rediscovered at the Tulare County Library (located in Visalia, California, in the San Joaquin Valley, approximately 180 miles north of Los Angeles) and were, through the good offi ces of Ms. Tammy Jordan, brought to the CDLI offi ces at UCLA for documentation and interpretation. They were sold for six dollars each by Edgar Banks to a Miss Gretchen Flower, acting on behalf of the library, in March of 1928. Banks claims that the fi rst of the two, Tulare 1, is from PuzriÒ-Dagan, the second, Tulare 2, from Umma. Though month names, tablet format and sealing practice do point toward PuzriÒ-Dagan and Umma as respective points of origin, the archaeological provenience of the two tablets and their ultimate archival context remain unclear (see below for discussion).
