Position in chronology
CMA A
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The world it comes from
A bureaucratic golden age, the Code of Ur-Nammu.
From the same catalogue range (near P497980)
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — CMA A. 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: CMA A (Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, South Carolina, USA) — from Girsu (mod. Tello) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P497980). source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no English translation stored at ingestion. P-number P497980..
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