Position in chronology
JCS 07, 104 SLAM 61:1927
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The world it comes from
A bureaucratic golden age, the Code of Ur-Nammu.
From the same catalogue range (near P111894)
Transliteration
1(disz) masz2-gal niga puzur4-ma-ma lu2 ma-ri2 1(disz) masz2-gal niga i3-li2-da-gan lu2 eb-la 1(disz) masz2-gal niga na-na-u3 lu2 ur-szu e2-duru5-ne-ne-sze3 lugal-ma2-gur8-re szabra iti u4 2(u) ba-zal ki szul-gi-a-a-mu-ta ba-zi iti u5!(NE)-bi2-gu7 mu amar-suen lugal-e ur-bi2-lum mu-hul
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — JCS 07, 104 SLAM 61:1927. 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 y2 — Urbilum destroyed based on canonical year-name formula in the transliteration.
Attribution
Image: Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri, USA (P111894) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no English translation stored at ingestion. P-number P111894..
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