Position in chronology
AAICAB 1/2, pl. 148, 1971-376
Not yet translated
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The world it comes from
A bureaucratic golden age, the Code of Ur-Nammu.
Transliteration
1(u) la2 1(disz@t) udu masz2 hi-a sa2-du11 szara2# umma diri-sze3 ba-sa6 ba-an-na-zi mu e2 puzur4-da-gan mu-kux(DU) ensi2!-ka ki# da#-da-ga# mu-gal2 mu us2#-sa# e2 puzur4-da-gan ba-du3 ka-giri3#? su-ga lugal-bad3 sipa u3 szara2-i3-sa6 sipa 3(u) 5(disz) udu 2(u) masz2 mu-kux(DU) ki-a sza3 a-pi4#-sal4 giri3 ur-[e11-e?] ugu2 ba-sa6# ba#-a#-gar
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — AAICAB 1/2, pl. 148, 1971-376. 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).
Attribution
Image: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK (P248888) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no English translation stored at ingestion. P-number P248888..
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