Public Granary Accounting

Administrative systems for tracking grain deposits, withdrawals, spoilage, labor rations, taxes, and emergency stores.

Core metadata

ID: public_granary_accounting
Era: Ancient
First known date: -3100 (century)
Region: Southern Mesopotamia, probably Uruk
Review status: source_checked
Maturity: N/A

Prerequisites

Dependents

Granary Pest Control (granary_pest_control)

Fields

None.

Node sources

Cuneiform tablet: administrative account with entries concerning malt and barley groats (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2026, museum) • Supports: node
Locator: The Met dates the administrative tablet to about 3100-2900 BCE and describes grain distributed by a large temple, supporting early public/temple granary accounting.

Prerequisite edge evidence

Edge/source evidence summary:

Prerequisite edges: 2
Average edge confidence: 68%
Prerequisite sources: 1
expert_inference: 2

Prerequisite	Type	Confidence	Evidence level	Note	Sources
Granaries (granaries)	enabling	68%	expert_inference	Granaries provides a capability that enables this technology without being the only possible path.	No sources recorded.
Near Eastern Clay Accounting Tokens (clay_accounting_tokens)	enabling	68%	expert_inference	Clay Accounting Tokens provides a capability that enables this technology without being the only possible path.	The token system of the ancient Near East: Its role in counting, writing, the economy and cognition (Cambridge University Press, 2010, textbook) • Supports: edge

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