BAM 4, 342

~760 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P281836

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P281836.

Transliteration

[...] x
[...] la#? x
[...] x ina _gu2_-szu2 _gar_-an
[...] _gar_-an
[... _]babbar-dili pa_
[...] ba-ah-re-e
[...] x 1(u) _na4-mesz nam-erim2_
[...] _x-ga e3_
[...] x [x x] x x [x x x x x]-ma _al-ti_
[...] mu-s,a _an-bar_ asz-pu-u _za-gin3 za#?_ [x x]
_[]gesz-nu11-gal an-zah# na4# lamma e3#_ [x x]

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)) — BAM 4, 342. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin, Germany (P281836) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P281836..

Related tablets

Related sources

~3200 BCE

Proto-Cuneiform Account Tablet

One of the earliest specimens of human writing. Not literature, not law — accounting. The need to keep track of grain in a temple bureaucracy is what pushed marks-on-clay into a system that could one day carry epics.

~3500 BCE

Kish Tablet

Marks the boundary between proto-writing and writing. We can see signs being used systematically — but not yet phonetically. The leap to recording speech itself comes a few centuries later.

~2450 BCE

Stele of the Vultures

The earliest historical document in human history. Before this, we have lists, accounts, and dedications. Here, for the first time, a ruler tells us what happened — with names, places, and consequences.