Position in chronology
Syracuse 206
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 P130757)
Transliteration
5(u) kusz udu niga 4(u) 5(disz) kusz masz2-gal kusz i3-ri2-na 1(u) kusz udu niga babbar2 1(gesz2) 5(disz) kusz udu babbar2 ki ur#?-gu2-de3-na-ta e2-a kux(KWU147)-ra kiszib3 nin-me-lam2 iti li9-si4 mu en-unu6-gal inanna ba-hun nin-me-lam2 dam ur-li9-si4 ensi2 umma
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — Syracuse 206. 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 Amar-Suen y4 — En-unugal of Inanna installed based on canonical year-name formula in the transliteration.
Attribution
Image: Syracuse University Library, Syracuse, New York, USA (P130757) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no English translation stored at ingestion. P-number P130757..
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