I follatori di Umma, 1: I documenti

This article constitutes the first part of a larger study on the fullers in Neo-Sumerian documents from Umma. I hereby collect and discuss all the relevant texts that record the fullers’ names and their activity. After an introduction on the studies of textiles industry in Neo-Sumerian sources, I discuss the evidences grouped into four typologies: 1) the list of fullers recorded in New-Year barley rations (še-ba-za3-mu(-ka)); 2) the documents recording the receipt of textiles and 3) material for fulling (im-babbar2 “gypsum”, naĝa “naĝa herb”, i3-šah2 “lard”) supplied to the fullers; 4) textiles issued by the fullers at the end of the fulling process.