Position in chronology
FS Wu 112, 7
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 P416541)
Transliteration
6(gesz2) 5(u) 7(disz) gurusz u4 1(disz)-sze3 szu-ur3-ra zar3 tab-ba u3 sze gur10-a a-sza3 gibil u3 a-sza3 iszib-e-ne ugula ba-sa6 kiszib3 inim-inanna mu us2-sa amar-suen lugal inim-inanna dumu lugal-iti-da
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — FS Wu 112, 7. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format). [year-name] Dated to Amar-Suen y2 — Year after: Amar-Suen became king based on canonical year-name formula in the transliteration.
Attribution
Image: Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, Missouri, USA (P416541) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P416541..
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