Somewhat different appear to be some fragments of genuine accounts, listing beer, wine, and sometimes bread. The tabulated format of nos. 137-139 clearly derives from an institutional context, and nos. 140-142 look more like distributions of rations to employees. On the other hand the "has come in" (ētarba) of no. 143 suggests a record of receipts by the institution. With the smaller fragments, there is the further danger of confusion with texts listing offerings to shrines - since the gods tended to receive exactly the same kind of contribution as secular dignitaries. This is very apparent with no. 144: in itself it gives no clues to its context, but it is placed here with no. 143 which it much resembles, and which lists daily amounts of bread summarized as "funerary offering (sic?: kispu), bread, the Syrian ladies."
In three of our account texts (nos. 137, 139, and 157) there is a possibility that bread and wine issues are accompanied by "resin" (BE(.MEŠ) interpreted as damē, "(cedar) blood"). This is far from certain, but nos. 146 and 147 are two texts definitely concerned with aromatics. They are here because Johns included them in ADD, but in their present condition it is impossible to know if they are really administrative. On the other hand, we have omitted from this volume ADD 1042 and 1117 which are medical prescriptions and certainly do not belong.
F.M. Fales & J.N. Postgate
F.M. Fales & J.N. Postgate, 'Various Accounts of Food, Drink and Aromatics', Imperial Administrative Records, Part I: Palace and Temple Administration, SAA 7. Original publication: Helsinki, Helsinki University Press, 1992; online contents: SAAo/SAA07 Project, a sub-project of MOCCI, 2021 [http://oracc.org/saao/saa07/accountsoffoodanddrink/variousaccountsoffooddrinkandaromatics/]