Position in chronology
MVN 03, 245
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 P113805)
Transliteration
3(barig) 2(ban2) sze gur ur5-sze3 masz2 1(asz) gur 1(barig) 4(ban2)-ta ki lugal-pa-e3-ta en-lil2-la2-ke4 szu ba-ti iti sig4 ag2-de3 mu lugal-bi in-pa3 mu en nanna kar-zi-da ba-hun en-lil2-la2 dumu e2-dur2
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — MVN 03, 245. 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: Free Library of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA (P113805) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no English translation stored at ingestion. P-number P113805..
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