Position in chronology
RIME 3/2.01.02.016, ex. 04
Not yet translated
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The world it comes from
A bureaucratic golden age, the Code of Ur-Nammu.
From the same catalogue range (near P226505)
Transliteration
nin-hur-sag nin-a-ni szul-gi nita kal-ga lugal uri5-ma lugal ki-en-gi ki-uri-ke4 gesz kesz2-ra2 ki-ag2-ni mu-na-du3
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — RIME 3/2.01.02.016, ex. 04. 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: OIM A01140 (Oriental Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA) — from Adab (mod. Bismaya) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P226505). source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no English translation stored at ingestion. P-number P226505..
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