NRVN 1, 183

~2050 BCE·Ur III · Neo-Sumerian·P122400

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

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P122367 · ~2028 BCE

NRVN 1, 151

“3 gur of barley, as an interest-bearing loan; interest: per 1 gur, 1 barig 4 ban; from Ur-Šulpa'e, Nur-Suen ha…”

P122366 · ~2028 BCE

NRVN 1, 150

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P122364 · ~2028 BCE

NRVN 1, 148

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P122412 · ~2032 BCE

NRVN 1, 195

Transliteration

1(barig) 3(ban2) sze a2 x [...]
gu4?-gal sze gal sze nin-[...]
e2 u4 2(u)-sze3 tug2-dam
mu lugal-bi in-pa3
ki ur-sukkal-ta
szu-iszkur szu ba-ti
1(disz) ur-tum-al
1(disz) szesz-kal-la
1(disz) lu2-en-lil2-la2
lu2-inim-ma-bi
iti sze-sag11-ku5
mu e2 szara2 umma ba-du3
szu-iszkur
dumu ha-ba-ti

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — NRVN 1, 183. 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: Ist Ni 01451 (cast: CBS 09768 ?) (Arkeoloji Müzeleri, Istanbul, Turkey) — from Nippur (mod. Nuffar) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P122400). source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no English translation stored at ingestion. P-number P122400..

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