Position in chronology
TJA pl.52, IOS 09
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 P134103)
Transliteration
1(u) 2(disz) tug2 guz-za 4(disz)-kam us2 1(disz) tug2 bar-dul5 4(disz)-kam us2 1(disz) tug2 nig2-lam2 sza3 bar-dul5 3(u) 6(disz) tug2 guz-za du 1(u) 6(disz) tug2 sag usz-bar 2(disz) tug2 usz-bar 3(u) 2(disz) tug2 bar-si nig2-la2 1(u) 6(disz) tug2 mug szunigin 1(gesz2) 5(u) 6(disz) tug2 hi-a ki ur-suen ur-iszkur szu ba-ti iti szu-numun mu us2-sa an-sza-an ba-hul
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — TJA pl.52, IOS 09. 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 y36 — Year after: Anšan destroyed based on canonical year-name formula in the transliteration.
Attribution
Image: Institute of Oriental Studies, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK (P134103) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no English translation stored at ingestion. P-number P134103..
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