Nik 1, 024

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The world it comes from

City-states, kings, the first wars.

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From the same catalogue range (near P221731)

P221751 · ~2400 BCE

CST 001

“33 mother ewes 29 male sheep (30 minus 1) 8 female spring lambs 5 male spring lambs 4 female late-born lambs 3…”

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (ED IIIb (ca. 2500-2340 BC)) — Nik 1, 024. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation (P221731) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P221731..

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