ND WL02

~2050 BCE·Ur III · Neo-Sumerian·P274104

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

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Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — ND WL02. 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).

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Image: Hesburgh Library, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, USA (P274104) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no English translation stored at ingestion. P-number P274104..

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