LoC 032

~2050 BCE·Ur III · Neo-Sumerian·P272555

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

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From the same catalogue range (near P272555)

CDLI Lexical 000001, ex. 075

Transliteration

2(u) 4(asz) sze gur ba-ba6
2(asz) sze gur zi-ga a-sza3
1(asz) sze gur ab-ba-kal-la
2(asz) sze gur sze-ba erin2-na
2(u) 9(asz) sze gur
sza3-bi-ta
5(asz) dabin gur e2-a gal2-la
6(asz) sze gur ur-nun-gal
2(asz) gur lu2-kal-la
1(u) sze gur ur-tur-tur
5(asz) sze gur igi-x [...]
i3-dab5 [...]
la2-ia3 1(asz) [...]

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — LoC 032. 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: Library of Congress, Washington, DC, USA (P272555) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no English translation stored at ingestion. P-number P272555..

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