NATN 642

~2050 BCE·Ur III · Neo-Sumerian·P121340

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

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From the same catalogue range (near P121340)

P121373 · ~2050 BCE

RA 010, 065 018 etc. (cast copies)

“1 barig of barley (royal measure) — Lugal-ušur, son of Ur-Eanna; 1 barig — Lu-Nindara, son of Lu-pada; 1 barig…”

Transliteration

2(disz) ha-bu3-da nig2-sa10-bi
1(disz) gin2 ku3-babbar 1(asz) 2(barig) 3(ban2) x
ib2-szi-gar
iti sig4-ga
ag2-e-de3
mu lugal in-na-pa3
lu2-dingir-ra ma-an-gu-ul szesz-gu-la lu2-inim-ma-bi
ur-du6-ku3-ga
dub-sar
dumu ur-me-me

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — NATN 642. 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: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA (P121340) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no English translation stored at ingestion. P-number P121340..

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