LB 0223

~2050 BCE·Ur III · Neo-Sumerian·P388757

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

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Transliteration

1(gesz2) 3(asz) 1(barig) sze gur lugal
i3-dub balag
ki du-du-ta
i-ta-e3-a
szu ba-ti
iti gu4-ra2-bi2-mu2
mu us2-sa ki-masz mu us2-sa-a-bi

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — LB 0223. 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 (P388757) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no English translation stored at ingestion. P-number P388757..

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