Prag 621

~1900 BCE·Old Assyrian·P359222

Translation · reference

Experimental

Source: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P359222.

Why it matters

Transliteration

1(u) 1(disz)? _tug2_ sza [a-ki-di2-e]
1(disz) _tug2_ a-bar-ni-u2
ta-ad-mi3-iq-tum
sza qi2#-ip#-ti2-a
ma-asz2-ka3#-tum
a-na a-na-ah-i3-li2
_dumu_ du10-s,i2-la2-a-szur
a-di2-in
_igi_ en-na-ma-a-szur
_kiszib3_ sza-ma-ma
_igi_ i-di2-a-szur
_dumu_ szu-be-lim _dumu_ ba-la2
_igi_ a-szur-qa2-di2-ka3

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Assyrian (ca. 1950-1850 BC)) — Prag 621. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic (P359222) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P359222..

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The earliest historical document in human history.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.