MDP 17, 112

~3000 BCE·Uruk Period·P008310

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The world it comes from

The birth of the city, the birth of writing.

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“|M305+M342| , M057~i M106 [...] , [...] [...] M263~1 M281~g , 1(N01) M388 x [...] , [...] [...] M004 M…”

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“[...] M386~a M131 M218 M288 , 3(N39B) [...] , 2(N30C) M219 M371~a , 1(N39B) 1(N24) [x] M288[?] , 1(N24) 2(N30C…”

P008298 · ~3000 BCE

MDP 17, 100

“Line 1: M291, M036 — 1(N30C) Line 2: M387[?], M036 — 2(N30C) Line 3: M010[?] — [...] Line 4: [...] M010[?] — 1…”

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Proto-Elamite (ca. 3100-2900 BC)) — MDP 17, 112. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: Louvre Museum, Paris, France (P008310) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P008310..

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