USC 6736

~2046 BCE·Ur III · Neo-Sumerian·P235546

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P235546.

Transliteration

4(asz) 1(barig) sze gur
a2 lu2 hun-ga2 ga2#?
mu amar-suen lugal#
ki a-gu-gu-ta
ugu2 ur-e11-e ba-a-gar
kiszib3 ur-szara2#
nig2-ka9 mu x [...] za-ba#-[...]
zi-zi-dam#
ur-szara2
dub-sar
dumu lugal-uszur4

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — USC 6736. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format). [year-name] Dated to Amar-Suen y1 — Amar-Suen became king based on canonical year-name formula in the transliteration.

Attribution

Image: Archaeological Research Collection, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA (P235546) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P235546..

Related tablets

Related sources

~3200 BCE

Proto-Cuneiform Account Tablet

One of the earliest specimens of human writing. Not literature, not law — accounting. The need to keep track of grain in a temple bureaucracy is what pushed marks-on-clay into a system that could one day carry epics.

~3500 BCE

Kish Tablet

Marks the boundary between proto-writing and writing. We can see signs being used systematically — but not yet phonetically. The leap to recording speech itself comes a few centuries later.

~2450 BCE

Stele of the Vultures

The earliest historical document in human history. Before this, we have lists, accounts, and dedications. Here, for the first time, a ruler tells us what happened — with names, places, and consequences.