Position in chronology
AAICAB 1/3, pl. 179, Bod A 01 (cast copies)
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 P248966)
Transliteration
1(u)# 1(disz)# tug2 guz-za 4(disz)-kam us2 1(u) la2 1(disz@t)# tug2 guz-za du 1(disz) tug2 bar-dul5 du 5(disz)# tug2 usz-bar x x 1(disz) tug2 nig2-lam2 3(disz)-kam us2 ki lu2-igi-ma-sze3-ta tug2 ki-la2 tag-ga [...] x x ur-ig#-alim# szu ba-ti iti GAN2-masz mu en eridu ba-a-hun
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — AAICAB 1/3, pl. 179, Bod A 01 (cast copies). 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).
Attribution
Image: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK (P248966) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no English translation stored at ingestion. P-number P248966..
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