Position in chronology
UET 3, 1591
Not yet translated
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The world it comes from
A bureaucratic golden age, the Code of Ur-Nammu.
From the same catalogue range (near P137917)
Transliteration
2(disz) tug2 nig2-lam2 us2 5(disz) tug2 nig2-lam2 3(disz)-kam us2 1(disz) tug2 guz-za 3(disz)-kam us2 1(disz) tug2 guz-za 4(disz)-kam us2 tug2 szabra mu-kux(DU) sa gi4-gi4-de3 nanna-hi-li lu2 azlag2 szu ba-an-ti iti ezem-mah mu szu-suen lugal-e e2 szara2 umma-ka mu-du3 tug2 mu ma2-gur8-mah ba-dim2 nanna-hi-li ARAD2 nanna
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — UET 3, 1591. 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 Šu-Suen y4 — Šu-Suen built the temple of Šara in Umma based on canonical year-name formula in the transliteration.
Attribution
Image: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA (P137917) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no English translation stored at ingestion. P-number P137917..
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