Position in chronology
NATN 563
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 P121261)
Transliteration
3(ban2) gig ku3-bi igi-4(disz)-gal2 uzu szah2 1(disz)-kam ku3-bi igi 9(disz)-[gal2] 2(disz) sila3 gesztin had2 ku3-bi 2(disz) [...] 2(disz) sila3 ga-ar3 ku3-bi igi-[...] 2(disz) sila3 tak4 ku3-bi 6(disz) [...] 3(disz) sila3 haszhur al-da-ra ku3-[bi ...] [x] sila3 i3-nun ku3-bi 1(u) 8(disz) [...] [x] sila3 i3 du10-ga sila3 x [...] x BAD [...] x x 8(disz) sze [...] ba-ra-[...] 1(disz) tug2 ku3-bi 1/2(disz) gin2 [...] 1(ban2) i3-gesz ku3-bi 1(disz) gin2 2(u) [...] igi-6(disz)-gal2 7(disz) sze a2 nar 1/2(disz) gin2 1(u) sze ku3 lu2 udu szunigin 3(disz) 1/3(disz) gin2 2(u) 1(disz) sze [...] ugu2 na-ka-[...]
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — NATN 563. 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: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA (P121261) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no English translation stored at ingestion. P-number P121261..
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