Position in chronology
MCS 5, 31 AO 7895
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The world it comes from
A bureaucratic golden age, the Code of Ur-Nammu.
Transliteration
5(disz) sila3 kasz du x ninda du8-a 4(disz) gin2 i3-gesz a-da-lal3 sukkal 5(disz) sila3 kasz 5(disz) sila3 ninda du8-a 4(disz) gin2 i3-gesz sze-le-bu-um sukkal 2(disz) dug dida 2(ban2) ninda du8-a 2(ban2) dabin kaskal kaskal-sze3 elam-me giri3 a-da-lal3 iti ezem-dumu-zi mu amar-suen lugal-e ur-bi2-lum mu-hul
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — MCS 5, 31 AO 7895. 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: Louvre Museum, Paris, France (P112791) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no English translation stored at ingestion. P-number P112791..
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