Position in chronology
Princeton 2, 476
Not yet translated
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The world it comes from
A bureaucratic golden age, the Code of Ur-Nammu.
Transliteration
2(gesz2) la2 1(disz) geme2 kikken-na ugula hu-wa-wa 2(gesz2) 2(u) 7(disz) geme2 sila3 2(u) 8(disz) geme2 sila3 ugula szesz-saga e2-duru5 muszen kikken-na-ta e2 nig2-sa6-a-sze3 sze ga6-ga2 u3 kun-zi-da u3-sur bala ak kiszib3 a-du-mu iti ezem-szul-gi mu bad3 mar-tu ba-du3 ur-[suen] dub-sar dumu ur-gigir sza3-tam
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — Princeton 2, 476. 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). [year-name] Dated to Šulgi y37 — The Amorite wall was built based on canonical year-name formula in the transliteration.
Attribution
Image: Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, New Jersey, USA (P201475) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no English translation stored at ingestion. P-number P201475..
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