MLVS 926

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City-states, kings, the first wars.

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From the same catalogue range (near P247614)

P247615 · ~2400 BCE

LB 0932

“[Deficit: x shekels of refined] silver. ... document/tablet of ..., it is the field of Huburuma. To Ur-igi-ama…”

P247613 · ~2400 BCE

MLVS 919

“Obverse (arranged in two columns of cases, read top to bottom, right column then left, per archaic tablet conv…”

P247612 · ~2400 BCE

MLVS 918

“1/3 mana of za-KU wool — (for) Ur-Ninpirig, the leatherworker. 10 shekels — Ur-igi, the overseer. 10 shekels —…”

P247611 · ~2400 BCE

MLVS 917

“11 bar-dul5 garments — (of) the weaver(s) — for Ur-igi-ama, the overseer (nu-banda3). Month: 'the granary, the…”

Transliteration

1(gesz2@c) ninda siki2
3(u@c) ninda gir2
5(asz@c) sa2-du11 kas sig15
kas ki-su7 szu su-ga-kam
en-gi-num
sanga ba-gara2

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (ED IIIb (ca. 2500-2340 BC)) — MLVS 926. 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: de Liagre Böhl Collection, Netherlands Institute for the Near East, Leiden, Holland (P247614) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no English translation stored at ingestion. P-number P247614..

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