SE 122

~3000 BCE·Uruk Period·P009439

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The world it comes from

The birth of the city, the birth of writing.

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P009441 · ~3000 BCE

SE 124

“(obverse) [Entry headed by] M207 [— quantity broken], M054 — 24 (2 × N14, 4 × N01), M373 — 11 (1 × N14, 1 × N0…”

P009442 · ~3000 BCE

SE 125

“(Header) M252~q — [label/classifier, undeciphered] M001 M376 — 1 unit (1 N01) M387~c M387~c — 1 unit (1 N01) M…”

P009443 · ~3000 BCE

SE 126

“(obverse) (line 1) ... [entry illegible] (line 2) [compound sign M195+M038] ... [commodity sign M388] [sign M3…”

P009434 · ~3000 BCE

CahDAFI 8, 95 16

“[...], M377(#) M251(#) x x , [...] [...] , 1(N39B) M146(#) x , 1(N14) 2(N01) M387 M240 M096(#) , 1(N14) 3(N01)…”

Transliteration

[...] ,
[...] , [...]
x x , 8(N14)
x , [...]
x , 2(N14)
M066 M352~n M315? M297 x , n

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Proto-Elamite (ca. 3100-2900 BC)) — SE 122. 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).

Attribution

Image: Couvent Saint-Etienne, Jerusalem (P009439) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no English translation stored at ingestion. P-number P009439..

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