Among a great number of Drehem texts published so far of the Ur-III period, there are a lot of curious ones which are interesting but difficult to understand satisfactorily.The text of CT 32, BM 103431 (plate 24) published by L. W. King about forty years ago is one of such texts.Remaining untouched, this text has become no object of study as yet, so far as I know.It is not altogether without reason; as its full text cited below clearly shows, one finds in it neither personal names nor words which tell us what is/are here dealt with (for example barley, oxen, and so on).The tablet lacks the date which informs us when it was composed.Instead three year-formulas and some of the month names of the Drehem calendar are enumerated side by side in the text.It must be especially due to the lack of personal names that scholars, being not interested in it, have not taken this important text into account.But under some circumstances it may and can become very useful in fact for study of cattle management in Drehem.
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Tohru Gomi (1978) studied this question.