MSVO 1, 141

~3100 BCE·Uruk Period·P005208

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The world it comes from

The birth of the city, the birth of writing.

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P005209 · ~3100 BCE

MSVO 1, 142

“[...] , [...] [...] , [...] X [...] , [...] X [...] , [...] [...] , [...] X [...] , [...] X 1(N01) , sheep [..…”

P005210 · ~3100 BCE

MSVO 1, 143

“[...] 3(N05) 3(N42~a), 5(N01), DUR~b NUNUZ~a1 [...] 1(N34), ZATU800 GISZ [...] 5(N01), KID~b [BAR] [...] 2(N14…”

P005202 · ~3100 BCE

MSVO 1, 135

“[...] 2(N05) 2(N42~a) 1(N25) , |ZATU714xHI@g~a| [...] [...] 1(N01) , |DUG~cx1(N57)| [...] 1(N01) , [...] [...]…”

P005217 · ~3100 BCE

MSVO 1, 150

“[...] , fodder(?) A 1(N01) , MU [ZATU714×HI] [1(N01)] , [sheep] |U4.(1(N14).5(N08))| large SZAB [1(N01)] , [sh…”

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Uruk III (ca. 3200-3000 BC)) — MSVO 1, 141. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK (P005208) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P005208..

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