Position in chronology
Ontario 2, 184
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 P209848)
Transliteration
4(barig) 5(ban2) 8(disz) sila3 ninda saga gur 2(gesz2) 4(u) 2(asz) 3(ban2) 1(disz) sila3 ninda du gur 4(asz) 1(barig) 1(ban2) 7(disz) sila3 ninda szu gu gur szagina ensi2 3(asz) 3(barig) 2(ban2) ninda du gur nu-banda3 u4 2(disz)-kam ki a2 u4-da giri3 er3-szara2 kiszib3 hu-wa-wa mu us2-sa szu-suen lugal uri5-ma-ke4 bad3 mar-tu mu-du3 lu2-eb-gal dub-sar dumu ur-ge6-par4
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — Ontario 2, 184. 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: Royal Ontario Museum of Archaeology, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (P209848) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no English translation stored at ingestion. P-number P209848..
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