Position in chronology
AAICAB 1/2, pl. 137, 1971-340
Not yet translated
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The world it comes from
A bureaucratic golden age, the Code of Ur-Nammu.
Transliteration
1(disz) kusz gu4 1(disz) kusz gu4 mu 1(asz) 2(disz) sa gu4-kam 2(disz) kun gu4 ki gu-du-du-ta kiszib3 a-a-kal-la aszgab iti pa4-u2-e mu i-bi2-suen lugal-e si-mu-ru-um mu-hul a-kal-la dumu lu2-bulug3-ga2 aszgab-gal
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — AAICAB 1/2, pl. 137, 1971-340. 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). [year-name] Dated to Ibbi-Suen y1 — Ibbi-Suen became king based on canonical year-name formula in the transliteration.
Attribution
Image: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK (P248854) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no English translation stored at ingestion. P-number P248854..
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