Cuneiform tablet c. 2050 BCE inside the State Library of Victoria

~2050 BCE·Ur III · Neo-Sumerian·used

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

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Scholarly note

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Cuneiform script was first used to record economic transactions around 3400 BCE. This clay tablet, written in cuneiform script in Sumerian, documents taxes paid in sheep and goats during the tenth mon

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Image: Yu Chu Chin — Wikimedia Commons. source
Translation excerpted from Wikimedia Commons file: File:Cuneiform tablet c. 2050 BCE inside the State Library of Victoria.jpg. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ACuneiform_tablet_c._2050_BCE_inside_the_State_Library_of_Victoria.jpg. Description: Cuneiform script was first used to record economic transactions around 3400 BCE. This clay tablet, written in cuneiform script in Sumerian, documents taxes paid in sheep and goats during the tenth month of the 46th year of Shulgi, the secon.

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