Position in chronology
TLB 03, 060
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 P134201)
Transliteration
1/3(disz) 2(disz) gin2 ku3-babbar ki ga-a szandana-ta e2-gal-la ba-an-kux(KWU147) giri3 lu2-nin-gir2-su dumu i3-kal-la iti ezem-li9-si4 mu gu-za en-lil2-la2 ba-dim2
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — TLB 03, 060. 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 Ur-Nammu y14 — The throne of Enlil was fashioned based on canonical year-name formula in the transliteration.
Attribution
Image: de Liagre Böhl Collection, Netherlands Institute for the Near East, Leiden, Holland (P134201) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no English translation stored at ingestion. P-number P134201..
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