Position in chronology
RIAA 120
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 P200406)
Transliteration
1(gesz2) sze# gur# kiszib3# szara2#-kam# dam#-gar3# nibru# 7(gesz2) gur kiszib3 lu2-en-ki e2# en-ki 1(gesz'u) gur kiszib3 wa#-x-ma# dumu x-x-lugal# 1(gesz2) gur kiszib3 x-x-dan dam-gar3 unu# 2(gesz2) gur kiszib3# [nu]-ur2#-esz18#-dar# dam-gar3# uri5# ki# al#-la#-mu#-ta 1(gesz'u) 4(gesz2)# gur kiszib3# nanna#-i3-sa6 dumu# nam#-ha-ni ki lu2#-usz#-gi-na-ta szunigin 3(gesz'u)# [5(gesz2)] sze# gur nig2#-sa10#-am3# udu#? kas4
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — RIAA 120. 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: Musées royaux d’Art et d’Histoire, Brussels, Belgium (P200406) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no English translation stored at ingestion. P-number P200406..
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