AAICAB 1/2, pl. 093, 1935-540

~2057 BCE·Ur III · Neo-Sumerian·P248615

Translation · reference

Experimental

Source: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P248615.

Why it matters

Transliteration

1(u) 6(disz) udu bar-gal2
1(u) masz2
udu gu2-na sipa-de3-ne
ki a-du-ta
ugu2 kas4 ba-a-gar
kiszib3 ur-nun-gal
mu us2-sa [bad3 mar]-tu [ba-du3]
ur-nun-gal
dub-sar
dumu ur-szara2
sza13-dub-ba-ka

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — AAICAB 1/2, pl. 093, 1935-540. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format). [year-name] Dated to Šulgi y38 — Year after: The Amorite wall was built based on canonical year-name formula in the transliteration.

Attribution

Image: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK (P248615) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P248615..

Related tablets

Related sources

~3200 BCE

Proto-Cuneiform Account Tablet

One of the earliest specimens of human writing. Not literature, not law — accounting. The need to keep track of grain in a temple bureaucracy is what pushed marks-on-clay into a system that could one day carry epics.

~3500 BCE

Kish Tablet

Marks the boundary between proto-writing and writing. We can see signs being used systematically — but not yet phonetically. The leap to recording speech itself comes a few centuries later.

~2450 BCE

Stele of the Vultures

The earliest historical document in human history. Before this, we have lists, accounts, and dedications. Here, for the first time, a ruler tells us what happened — with names, places, and consequences.