Position in chronology
Rochester 185
Not yet translated
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The world it comes from
A bureaucratic golden age, the Code of Ur-Nammu.
Transliteration
1(gesz2) 4(u) [sa] gi gi IL2-da ur-sa6-sa6 kiszib3 ur-ama-na iti pa4-u2-e mu ha-ar-szi ba-hul ur-ama-na [dub-sar] dumu ur-[gigir sza3-tam]
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — Rochester 185. 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 y26 — Harši destroyed based on canonical year-name formula in the transliteration.
Attribution
Image: Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, USA (P128290) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no English translation stored at ingestion. P-number P128290..
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