Position in chronology
MVN 15, 168
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 P118448)
Transliteration
2(disz) sila4 en inanna 1(disz) sila4 szu-er3-ra 1(disz) asz2-gar3 lugal-ma2-gur8-re 1(disz) sila4 lugal-nam-tar-re mu-kux(DU) lugal [in]-ta-e3-a i3-dab5 giri3 nanna-ma-ba dub-sar u4 6(disz)-kam iti a2-ki-ti mu szu-suen lugal uri5-ma-ke4 ma-da za-ab-sza-li mu-hul 5(disz) udu
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — MVN 15, 168. 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: Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA (P118448) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no English translation stored at ingestion. P-number P118448..
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