Position in chronology
DCS 013
Not yet translated
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The world it comes from
Sargon brings rival city-states under imperial rule.
Transliteration
1(asz@c) tug2 aktum guz-za 1(asz@c) szakkan i3 2(ban2@c)# lu2 ma-ma-hir 1(asz@c) szakkan i3 2(ban2@c) dumu ba-zi erin-da sukkal maszkim 1(asz@c) szakkan i3-sag3 lu2#-zi-ga-x erin-da dumu nanna-mu maszkim 2(asz@c) tug2 aktum guz-za 2(asz@c) szakkan i3 2(ban2@c) lu2 x x x-me x gir2-x x x maszkim#? zi#-ga lugal-inim#-du10#
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Lagash II (ca. 2200-2100 BC)) — DCS 013. This record has no stored scholarly English translation; the existence of published translations has not been checked; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).
Attribution
Image: Bibliothèque Nationale et Universitaire de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France (P213100) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no English translation stored at ingestion. P-number P213100..
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