BAM 6, 553

~760 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P399244

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P399244.

Transliteration

[...] x _ara3-mesz szub_-di _gu2-[gal]_
[...] x _ti_ gu-uh-hi su-alu
[...] szur-szi-ka _tu6-en2_
[... su]-alu# _szid_-nu-ma _nag_-szu2
[...] li-ma ma-al-ma-al-lisz#?
[...] ne2#-e _bal-gi_ s,a-ri-⸢ih⸣
[...] x x [x]
ki#? [...]
u3# [...]
at-[ta ...]
_en2_ ul# [...]
_en2 [da-mu u gu-la ...]
gu-la# [be-let _ti-la_ ...]
_ka#-inim-ma#_ [...]
x an? [...]

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)) — BAM 6, 553. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: British Museum, London, UK (P399244) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P399244..

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The earliest historical document in human history.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.