Position in chronology
URU-KA-gina 13
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) (Weight stone of) 15 shekel, for Ninĝirsu (certified by) Iri-kagina, king of Ĝirsu.
Source: Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Royal Inscriptions (ETCSRI), University of Vienna, edited by Gábor Zólyomi et al. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/etcsri/Q003653/
Why it matters
A weight-stone inscription certifying a 15-shekel standard in Ninĝirsu's name: direct physical evidence that Iri-kagina enforced metrological authority through dedicated cultic weights at Ĝirsu.
Transliteration
Scholarly note
Sumerian royal inscription, published in the Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Royal Inscriptions (ETCSRI) by Gábor Zólyomi and collaborators. Translation reproduced from the ETCSRI edition. ORACC text Q003653.
Attribution
Image: BSNS C14692 (Museum of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences, Buffalo, New York, USA) — from uncertain (mod. uncertain) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P464924). source
Translation excerpted from Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Royal Inscriptions (ETCSRI), University of Vienna, edited by Gábor Zólyomi et al. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/etcsri/Q003653/.
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