TAD 01

~2037 BCE·Ur III · Neo-Sumerian·P131044

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The world it comes from

A bureaucratic golden age, the Code of Ur-Nammu.

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Transliteration

4(u) 1(disz) udu
2(disz) sila4
3(u) 6(disz) masz2
szu-gid2
ki ba-ba-ti-ta
ur-ku3-nun-na
i3-dab5
giri3 du10-i3-li2
iti ezem-szu-suen
mu szu-suen lugal uri5-ma-<ke4> ma-da za-ab-sza-li mu-hul

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — TAD 01. 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: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK (P131044) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no English translation stored at ingestion. P-number P131044..

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