RIME 2.13.06.01, ex. add13

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Sargon brings rival city-states under imperial rule.

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From the same catalogue range (near P408031)

P408032 · ~2130 BCE

RIME 3/1.01.12.03, ex. add24

P408033 · ~1950 BCE

RIME 4.01.05.04, ex. add121

P408029 · ~580 BCE

RINBE 1, Nebuchadnezzar II nn, ex. nn

P408027 · ~1950 BCE

RIME 4.01.05.04, ex. add120

Transliteration

nansze#
nin uru16#
nin in-dub-ba-[ra]
utu-he2-gal2
lugal an-ub-da [limmu5-ba-ke4]
ki-sur-ra lagasz#[-ka]
lu2 uri5-[ma-ke4]
inim bi2-gar
szu-na mu-ni-gi4

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Akkadian (ca. 2340-2200 BC)) — RIME 2.13.06.01, ex. add13. 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: Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA (P408031) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no English translation stored at ingestion. P-number P408031..

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