WF 103

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The world it comes from

City-states, kings, the first wars.

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P011050 · ~2550 BCE

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Transliteration

1(asz@c) ki-ni-du10
maszkim
adab
1(asz@c) ku-li-kalam
maszkim
kesz3
1(asz@c) MI-mud
maszkim
iszkur

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (ED IIIa (ca. 2600-2500 BC)) — WF 103. 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: Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin, Germany (P011061) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no English translation stored at ingestion. P-number P011061..

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