Meet Kushim, the accountant from ancient Sumer | AccountingWEB
2024-11-22 20:40It's an accountant named Kushim. A fascinating article in National Geographic speaks of "a 5,000-year-old clay tablet found in Mesopotamia (modern Iraq). It has dots, brackets, and little drawings carved on it and appears to record a business deal". The tablet seems to be a receipt for multiple shipments of barley.
Kushim the Sumerian and the first Accounting Mistake in History
Meet Kushim. It is very rare that we get an insight into an individual from ancient history, let alone one from ancient Sumer. This is one of the truly distant civilizations, and just as dynastic Egypt was getting its act together Kushim was counting beans in the Sumerian city of Uruk sometime between 3,400 and 3,000 BC.
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Kushim contemplated the choices. Power and wealth are great, but what good is power without the glory of living forever in songs and stories? And surely one couldn't be remembered without being famous, and couldn't be famous without being rich - the creature must be lying. Kushim opened his mouth and spoke, "I choose to be remembered." "Very well."
The first recorded human was a Sumerian accountant named Kushim. He ...
As an individual, Kushim might have been, somewhat ironically, quite forgettable. He appears to have been so extraordinarily normal he may even have owned the world's first mass-produced item: a beveled-rim bowl, an item that archaeologists have found everywhere in Uruk and which, when filled with grain, seems to have been the ancient version ...
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Kushim was most likely a few hundred years in the future. Before even those, we have the Jiahu Symbols, which actually pre-date structured writing and are a member of the ancestral symbolic scripts which begat things like cuneiform. To stamp ownership on pottery, the symbols would be engraved in the clay before it hardened.