RTC 257

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P217029.

Transliteration

la2-ia3 3(u) la2 1(asz@c) [...] ki
la2-ia3-am3
lu2-szara2
4(asz@c) gu2 2(u) ma-na
amar [...]
[...]-si
mu nin-dingir iszkur masz-e ba-pa3-da

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Lagash II (ca. 2200-2100 BC) ?) — RTC 257. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: Louvre Museum, Paris, France (P217029) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P217029..

Related tablets

Related sources

~3200 BCE

Proto-Cuneiform Account Tablet

One of the earliest specimens of human writing. Not literature, not law — accounting. The need to keep track of grain in a temple bureaucracy is what pushed marks-on-clay into a system that could one day carry epics.

~2050 BCE

Drehem Cattle-Distribution Tablet

A window into the world's first total state. The Ur III administration tracked every animal, every worker, every shekel — for a population in the millions. The level of paperwork was not exceeded until the modern era.

~3300 BCE

AoF 30, 238,1