Sumerian·Book

Position in chronology

~2300 BCE
Ubaid
5500
Uruk
4000
ED
2900
Akkad
2334
Ur III
2112
Old Bab.
2000
Old Assyrian
2000
Mid. Bab.
1600
Middle Assyrian
1400
Neo-Assyr.
911
Neo-Bab.
626
Achaemenid
539

PATESI Ensi on the tablet of Lugalannatum

~2300 BCE·Akkadian Empire

Not yet translated

This tablet is catalogued and photographed, but no published translation exists yet. Our translation engine works through the untranslated corpus every night, oldest first — this page will update the day its turn comes. If you are a specialist and can read it, we would love your help.

The world it comes from

Sargon brings rival city-states under imperial rule.

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Scholarly note

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0 fr). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: PATESI (Sumerian reading) Ensi (Akkadian reading) on the tablet of Lugalannatum

Attribution

Image: Rama (photography) पाटलिपुत्र (touch-up and expertise) — Wikimedia Commons. source
Translation excerpted from Wikimedia Commons file: File:PATESI Ensi on the tablet of Lugalannatum.jpg. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3APATESI_Ensi_on_the_tablet_of_Lugalannatum.jpg. Description: PATESI (Sumerian reading) Ensi (Akkadian reading) on the tablet of Lugalannatum.

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