LB 0048

~2050 BCE·Ur III · Neo-Sumerian·P388615

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A bureaucratic golden age, the Code of Ur-Nammu.

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P388599 · ~2270 BCE

LB 0024

“1. [1 (man):] Ur-Nin-..., 2. [1 (man):] Lugal-zame, 3. 1 (man): Lugal-itida, 4. 1 (man): Me-me, 5. 1 (man): Lu…”

P388598 · ~2270 BCE

LB 0023

“(Beginning destroyed) [...] [...] ... sa6 [...] [n (area units)] — Dadaga; 1 eše (of field) — Lu-Nibru; 1 eše …”

P388590 · ~2270 BCE

LB 0014

“obv. 1. [n]+10 full-grown pigs, 2. 35 piglets, 3. [...] ... ...-a(?) [...], 4. 90 pigs [...], (break) 5. Total…”

P388646 · ~2270 BCE

LB 0089

“1. 5(?) (jars of) fine beer, 2. 16 (jars of) ordinary beer: 3. it is the regular delivery (sa₂-du₁₁); 4. 2 (ja…”

Transliteration

6(disz) gada sig5
2(u) 4(disz) gada us2
2(u) 1(disz) 2(u) 3(disz) gada du
4(disz) gada sza3-ga-du3 ensi2
1(disz) gada sag-x sza3-gu
[n] gada sza3-ga-du3 sig5
[n]+2(disz) gada# sza3-ga-du3 du#
mu-kux(DU)
a-tu szu ba-ti
iti GAN2-masz
iti gu4-ra2-bi2-mu2
mu ma2 nin-lil2 us2-sa

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — LB 0048. 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: de Liagre Böhl Collection, Netherlands Institute for the Near East, Leiden, Holland (P388615) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no English translation stored at ingestion. P-number P388615..

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