Position in chronology
CST 741
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 P108258)
Transliteration
4(disz) kaskal 5(ban2) 5(disz) sila3-ta nig2-dab5 du6-ku3-ga giri3 ba-da-ga 2(gesz'u) 7(gesz2) ku6 gir2!-us2 za3! 1(u)-bi ib2-ta-<zi> nig2-dab5 nesag en-lil2-la2 giri3 lugal-mah-x ki ur-ba-ba6-ta# kiszib3 lugal-nig2-lagar-e mu us2-sa szu-suen lugal-e bad3 mar-tu mu-du3 lugal-si-NE-e dub-sar dumu lugal-sa6-[ga]
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — CST 741. 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 y2 — Year after: Šu-Suen became king based on canonical year-name formula in the transliteration.
Attribution
Image: John Rylands Library, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK (P108258) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no English translation stored at ingestion. P-number P108258..
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