Position in chronology
JCS 02, 188 PTS 1274
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The world it comes from
A bureaucratic golden age, the Code of Ur-Nammu.
From the same catalogue range (near P201380)
Transliteration
2(disz) kid szer7-um ki-la2-bi 1(disz) 1/3(disz) sar ma2 zi3 sig15 lugal-gaba-ka ba-a-dulx(|URxA|) 1(disz) kid szer7-um ki-la2-bi 5/6(disz) sar ma2 zi3-da zi-[...]-di ba-a-dulx(|URxA|) ki lu2-igi-sa6-sa6-ga-ta kiszib3 ur-zu iti diri mu us2-sa ki-masz ba-hul ur-zu dub-sar zi3-da dumu a2-zi-da
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — JCS 02, 188 PTS 1274. 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: Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, New Jersey, USA (P201380) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no English translation stored at ingestion. P-number P201380..
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