Position in chronology
CUSAS 03, 0385
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 P323799)
Transliteration
[n] sila3 ninda [n sila3] dabin [n] sila3 sze 1(disz) sila3 1(u) gin2 nig2-ar3-ra saga sza3-gal szitim-e-ne 5(disz) sila3 ninda ugula lu2 hun-ga2-e-ne ib2-gu7 3(disz) sila3 lu2 kin-gi4-a szu-kab-ta 1(disz) sila3 dabin 1/2(disz) sila3 esza dub-dub-de3 bad3#?-us2# e2-a du3-de3 giri3#-puzur4-nin-kar-ke3 dub-sar ki ma-lik-ba-ni-ta ba-zi sza3 gar-sza-an-na iti ki-siki nin-a-zu mu szu-suen lugal uri5-ma-ke4 [na]-ru2-a-mah [en]-lil2# nin-lil2-[ra mu]-ne-du3 [u4 n?] 7(disz)-kam
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — CUSAS 03, 0385. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format). [year-name] Dated to Šu-Suen y1 — Šu-Suen became king based on canonical year-name formula in the transliteration.
Attribution
Image: CUNES 49-12-044 (Department of Near Eastern Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA) — from Garšana (mod. uncertain) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P323799). source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P323799..
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