Position in chronology
RTC 313
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 P128466)
Transliteration
2/3(disz) sila3 i3-nun nig2-siskur2-ra a-sza3 dar?-du3-a gu4 e2-gal e2 nin-gir2-su u3 e2 ba-ba6-sze3 giri3 lu2-nin-gir2-su dumu e2-ki zi-ga iti munu4-gu7 mu en eridu ba-a-hun
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — RTC 313. 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: Louvre Museum, Paris, France (P128466) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no English translation stored at ingestion. P-number P128466..
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