Position in chronology
TAD 59
Not yet translated
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The world it comes from
A bureaucratic golden age, the Code of Ur-Nammu.
Transliteration
1(disz) sila4 in-ta-e3-a 1(disz) sila4 szu-ma-mi-tum u4 3(disz)-kam 1(disz) sila4 nanna-ma-ba szu im mu-kux(DU)-ta 1(disz) sila4 nu-ur2-zu 3(disz)# sila4# giri3 lu2-uru11 1(disz) sila4 ur-ba-ba6 sipa 1(disz) masz2 giri3 lu2-uru11 nu-ur2-zu i3-dab5 2(disz) sila4 lu2 ba-ba-ti 1(disz) sila4 szu-sza-nu-um
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — TAD 59. 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: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK (P131101) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no English translation stored at ingestion. P-number P131101..
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