SF 044

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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 P010629)

P010603 · ~2550 BCE

SF 025

“(obverse, single preserved column) [...] ... (traces) Ur-Inanna Kulili Sidu A(?)-...-NE (name written with the…”

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (ED IIIa (ca. 2600-2500 BC)) — SF 044. 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: VAT 12560 (Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin, Germany) — from Šuruppak (mod. Fara) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P010629). source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no English translation stored at ingestion. P-number P010629..

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