Position in chronology
MVN 13, 685
Not yet translated
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The world it comes from
A bureaucratic golden age, the Code of Ur-Nammu.
From the same catalogue range (near P117458)
Transliteration
2(disz) sila3 kasz 2(disz) sila3 ninda 1(disz) i3 <id>-gur2! sza3-iri 1(disz) dug dida 5(disz) sila3 zi3 kaskal-sze3 bu3-u2-kal-la lu2 tukul 2(disz) sa-bu-um du-ni iti munu4-gu7
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — MVN 13, 685. 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: Free Library of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA (P117458) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no English translation stored at ingestion. P-number P117458..
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