Position in chronology
MVN 15, 209
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 P118488)
Transliteration
1(disz) sag nita2 5(disz) 1/2(disz) gin2 ku3-babbar2 sa10-am3 til-la-ni-sze3 ba-ab-ti muhaldim-sze3 na-am3-ri2-lum a-zu in-szi-sa10 1(disz) bi2-bi2-a lu2 szutumx(|KI.NA.AB.TUM|)-ma igi ensi2-ka-sze3 i3-ib2-dab igi# da-du-mu dub-sar lugal-ka-sze3 [igi ...]-x dam-gar3-sze3 [igi szul]-gi#-zi-mu a-zu-sze3 [igi] ur#-nin-mug-ga-sze3 iti li9-si4 mu amar-suen lugal-e ur-bi2-lum mu-hul
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — MVN 15, 209. 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: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA (P118488) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no English translation stored at ingestion. P-number P118488..
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