Position in chronology
Kress 239
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The world it comes from
A bureaucratic golden age, the Code of Ur-Nammu.
Transliteration
[iti] sze#-sag11-ku5# [mu szu-]suen# lugal uri5#-ma-ke4 [ma2] dara4#-abzu en-ki#-ka bi2-in-du8
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — Kress 239. 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: Kress 239 (private: anonymous, Germany) — from uncertain (mod. uncertain) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P480699). source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no English translation stored at ingestion. P-number P480699..
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