CUNES 52-02-004

~2050 BCE·Ur III · Neo-Sumerian·P325827

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

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P325788 · ~2050 BCE

CUNES 51-10-056

“Turam-ili — speak to him! 2 gur barley, from the sealed storehouse (e2-kišib-ba), to Lu-Turam let it be given.…”

Transliteration

ARAD2-mu
u3#-na-a-du11#
1(bur3) GAN2 szuku engar-gu4-ka
[...] x
[...]-x-la
x x x
x x x

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — CUNES 52-02-004. 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: Department of Near Eastern Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA (P325827) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no English translation stored at ingestion. P-number P325827..

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