Position in chronology
HSS 68, 031
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 P406797)
Transliteration
3(u) 7(disz) udu szimaszgi u2 sa2-du11 zi-ni-a-sze3 kiszib3 lugal-u4-su3!(BU)-sze3 szabra ki in-ta-e3-a-ta ba-zi iti ezem-szu-suen mu szu-suen lugal uri5-ma-ke4 ma2-gur8 mah en-lil2 nin-lil2-ra mu-ne-dim2 3(u) 7(disz) udu
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — HSS 68, 031. 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 y1 — Šu-Suen became king based on canonical year-name formula in the transliteration.
Attribution
Image: Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA (P406797) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no English translation stored at ingestion. P-number P406797..
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