Position in chronology
TCBI 1, 263
Not yet translated
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The world it comes from
Sargon brings rival city-states under imperial rule.
From the same catalogue range (near P382515)
Transliteration
lu2-aszgi lu2-lum-ma en-lil2-bi nin-gesz en-edin-ne2 bar-ra-ni-sze3 e2-GAN2-a-x ur-gi7# nin-IM-x
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Akkadian (ca. 2340-2200 BC)) — TCBI 1, 263. 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: Banca d'Italia, Rome, Italy (P382515) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no English translation stored at ingestion. P-number P382515..
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