Position in chronology
BPOA 06, 0906
Not yet translated
This tablet is catalogued with its transliteration and photographed, but no published translation exists yet. Our translation engine works through the untranslated corpus every night, oldest first — this page will update the day its turn comes. If you are a specialist and can read it, we would love your help.
The world it comes from
A bureaucratic golden age, the Code of Ur-Nammu.
From the same catalogue range (near P293351)
Transliteration
1(u) ad6 udu mu aga3-us2-e-ne ugula du-uk-ra ki tu-ra-a hu-um-s,u szu ba-ti giri3 szu-esz18-dar dumu e2-a-ra-bi2 sza3 nim-zi-um iti# ezem#-szul-gi [mu sza-asz]-ru# [ba]-hul#
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — BPOA 06, 0906. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format). [year-name] Dated to Amar-Suen y6 — Šašru destroyed based on canonical year-name formula in the transliteration.
Attribution
Image: Nies Babylonian Collection, Yale Babylonian Collection, New Haven, Connecticut, USA (P293351) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P293351..
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