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Sumerian Cuneifurm Tablet. Wellcome M0005812
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The world it comes from
A bureaucratic golden age, the Code of Ur-Nammu.
Scholarly note
Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Sumerian Cuneifurm Tablet. Concerning a consignment of North Syrian cedar-wood (evidently imported from Lebanon) to be used in ship building. Dated: "year after the land of Urbillu was devastated", i.
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Image: https://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/obf_images/0c/58/c6fce7e4b39de20f78dde385775b.jpg Gallery: https://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/image/M0005812.html Wellcome Collection gallery (2018-04-03): https://wellcomecollection.org/works/djr7zy6u CC-BY-4.0 — Wikimedia Commons. source
Translation excerpted from Wikimedia Commons file: File:Sumerian Cuneifurm Tablet. Wellcome M0005812.jpg. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ASumerian_Cuneifurm_Tablet._Wellcome_M0005812.jpg. Description: Sumerian Cuneifurm Tablet. Concerning a consignment of North Syrian cedar-wood (evidently imported from Lebanon) to be used in ship building. Dated: "year after the land of Urbillu was devastated", i.e. 49th year of King Shulgi, IIIrd Dynas.
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