OSP 2, 087

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P216241.

Transliteration

4(gesz2@c) szum2 kab2-ku5
szum2-bi 1(ban2@c) 1(disz) sila3-ta
e2-pa-e3
3(gesz2@c) 1(u@c) 1(disz) [...]
2(gesz2@c) lugal#-[...] 1(ban2) [...] sila3
1(gesz2@c) 6(asz@c) [...] 1(ban2@c) [...] sila3#
3(gesz2@c) uri 2(ban2@c)
4(gesz2@c) ur-pisan 1(ban2@c)

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Akkadian (ca. 2340-2200 BC)) — OSP 2, 087. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA (P216241) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P216241..

Related tablets

Related sources

~3200 BCE

Proto-Cuneiform Account Tablet

One of the earliest specimens of human writing. Not literature, not law — accounting. The need to keep track of grain in a temple bureaucracy is what pushed marks-on-clay into a system that could one day carry epics.

~3500 BCE

Kish Tablet

Marks the boundary between proto-writing and writing. We can see signs being used systematically — but not yet phonetically. The leap to recording speech itself comes a few centuries later.

~2450 BCE

Stele of the Vultures

The earliest historical document in human history. Before this, we have lists, accounts, and dedications. Here, for the first time, a ruler tells us what happened — with names, places, and consequences.