BCT 1, 079

~2042 BCE·Ur III · Neo-Sumerian·P105181

Translation · reference

Experimental

Source: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P105181.

Why it matters

Transliteration

2(disz) dusu2-munus
szu-gid2 e2-kiszib3-ba-sze3
ur-gi7-re gu7-te
giri3 su-su-mu
szul-gi-iri-mu
szu ba-ti
ki szu-er3-ra-ta
ba-zi
iti ki-siki-nin-a-zu
mu en-mah-gal-an-na en nanna ba-hun

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — BCT 1, 079. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format). [year-name] Dated to Amar-Suen y5 — En-maḫgalanna en-priest of Nanna installed based on canonical year-name formula in the transliteration.

Attribution

Image: Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery, Birmingham, UK (P105181) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P105181..

Related tablets

Related sources

~2050 BCE

Drehem Cattle-Distribution Tablet

A window into the world's first total state. The Ur III administration tracked every animal, every worker, every shekel — for a population in the millions. The level of paperwork was not exceeded until the modern era.

~1340 BCE

Amarna Letter EA 153 — Abi-milku of Tyre

Part of the earliest known body of international diplomatic correspondence. Akkadian, written in cuneiform on clay, was the lingua franca of Late Bronze Age statecraft — used between Egypt, the Hittites, Mitanni, Babylon, Assyria, and the Levantine vassals.

~3300 BCE

Clay tablet, late Uruk period, 3300-3100 BCE. Proto-cuneiform signs, food issue list " rations" written by combining a human head and a bowl. Purchased via Christie's in 1989, with contribution from the British Museum Friends