Position in chronology
Berens 063
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The world it comes from
A bureaucratic golden age, the Code of Ur-Nammu.
From the same catalogue range (near P105774)
Transliteration
2(gesz2) sze gur nig2-sa10 gi-sze3 ki ur-en-lil2-la2-ta ha-li2-li2 dam-gar3 szu ba-ti iti amar-a-a-si mu i-bi2#-suen lugal kiszib3 ha-li2-li2 dam-gar3
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — Berens 063. 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: Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, Ireland (P105774) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no English translation stored at ingestion. P-number P105774..
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