Excel in Clay III: The Susa Protocol — An Algorithmic Audit of the Proto-Elamite Operating System

This paper treats the Proto-Elamite corpus (~3100–2900 BCE, ~1,600 clay tablets) as a closed administrative database and audits its algorithmic structure without attempting linguistic decipherment. Through forensic arithmetic, seal-header correlation, and structural analysis of 20 consecutively archived tablets (P008791–P008810), seven features of a rigid operating system are identified: a confirmed seed-to-land ratio β = 2.5 (Damerow & Englund, 1989); an original discovery of a fixed ration constant β_livestock = 1/12 per worker; an M004/M341 deficit-reset loop functioning as automated ledger reconciliation; an IF-THEN exception handler triggered by plow sign M417~f; a Shift of Authority mechanism enabling institutional reorganization post-deficit; cross-border interoperability evidenced by Indus seal Sb 2425; and paleoclimatic correlation of system collapse at 2900–2800 BCE. Part of the "Projection Before Meaning" cross-corpus research program.