NATN p. 61 catalogue

~2050 BCE·Ur III · Neo-Sumerian·P281212

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

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Transliteration

[...]-x
[...] kal-ga
lugal uri5#-ma#
ur#?-i3-si-na
sukkal# ARAD2-[zu]

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — NATN p. 61 catalogue. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA (P281212) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P281212..

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