MSVO 3, 40

~3100 BCE·Uruk Period·P005351

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The world it comes from

The birth of the city, the birth of writing.

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P005354 · ~3100 BCE

MSVO 3, 43

“2(N01@f) , |NINDA2xU4| 5(N01@f) , KA2~b 1(N51) , U4 KU6~a 2(N01@f) , SUHUR [...] NE~a SZITA~a3 X PAP~a [...] […”

P005355 · ~3100 BCE

MSVO 3, 44

“5(N14) , SAG [...] 2(N19) , EN~a GA2~a1 ME~a [X] 2(N14) , PA~a [...] 1(N14) , [...] 1(N14) , NE~a PAP~…”

P005346 · ~3100 BCE

MSVO 3, 35

“2 [units], AN, MUSZ3~a 1 [unit], |NUN~a+EN~a| 4(N39~a) 1(N24) [units], NAM2 KAB 1 [unit], GAL~a [...] HI mixed…”

P005356 · ~3100 BCE

MSVO 3, 45

“2(N39~a) 1(N24) , LA2? SA~a 2(N39~a) 1(N24) , MUD BULUG3 2(N39~a) 1(N24) , 3(N57) NANNA~a BULUG3 2(N39~a) 1(N2…”

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Uruk III (ca. 3200-3000 BC)) — MSVO 3, 40. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: Bodmer Museum, Cologny, Switzerland (P005351) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P005351..

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