RIME 1.11.add54.01, ex. 01

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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 P222814)

P222815 · ~2400 BCE

RIME 1.11.add55.01, ex. 01

P222812 · ~2400 BCE

RIME 1.11.add52.01, ex. 01

P222817 · ~2400 BCE

RIME 1.11.add57.01, ex. 01

P222818 · ~2400 BCE

RIME 1.11.add58.01, ex. 01

Transliteration

nin-lilx(KID)
x-KID# ab?-munus?-x

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (ED IIIb (ca. 2500-2340 BC)) — RIME 1.11.add54.01, ex. 01. 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 (P222814) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P222814..

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