MSVO 1, 222

~3100 BCE·Uruk Period·P005289

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The birth of the city, the birth of writing.

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P005283 · ~3100 BCE

MSVO 1, 216

“1. 2(N14), SAL.KUR(a) — barley — SZU (received/in hand of) 2. 2(N14) 4(N01), barley — KU(b1) — aromatic/szim 3…”

P005297 · ~3100 BCE

MSVO 1, 230

“1. [...] — [...] X (broken, sign not identifiable) 2. [...] — [...] storehouse (E2~a) 3. [...] — [...] head/ch…”

P005298 · ~3100 BCE

MSVO 1, 231

“(Column/line 1) [...] 2(N01) , NAM2 [...] 2(N01) , PAP [...] , [illegible sign] SZU SZITA (dagger-sign) [...] …”

P005279 · ~3100 BCE

MSVO 1, 212

“(Fragmentary, proto-cuneiform administrative tablet; sign-by-sign rendering follows the transliteration) Line…”

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Uruk III (ca. 3200-3000 BC)) — MSVO 1, 222. 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: Oriental Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA (P005289) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no English translation stored at ingestion. P-number P005289..

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