NATN 639

~2050 BCE·Ur III · Neo-Sumerian·P121337

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

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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

ba-ab-da-ti
e2 nisaba
sag2 nu-DI
x x sanga
AN-DISZ-nun-me
sze en-lil2-la2
he2-ag2 nin-lil2-la2
[...] IGI
[...] bad3-a
x x BI

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — NATN 639. 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 (P121337) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no English translation stored at ingestion. P-number P121337..

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