DCS 021

Translation · reference

Experimental

Source: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P213108.

Why it matters

Transliteration

2(asz@c) tug2 bar-dul5 guz-za saga
5(asz@c) tug2 mu-du8-um saga
1(gesz2@c) 4(u@c) tug2 mu-du8-um us2
4(asz@c) tug2 gu2-e3 us2
2(asz@c) tug2 gu2-la2 us2
1(asz@c) tug2 bar-dul5 PA
7(asz@c) tug2 nig2-lam2#
4(asz@c) tug2 bur2# [x]
x x x
x tug2 munus [...]
5(asz@c) tug2 aktum x
4(gesz2@c) la2 1(u@c) tug2 aktum guz-za elam
e2-gal-ta
lugal-inim-du10
szu ba-ti

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Lagash II (ca. 2200-2100 BC)) — DCS 021. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: Bibliothèque Nationale et Universitaire de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France (P213108) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P213108..

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.

~3500 BCE

Kish Tablet

Marks the boundary between proto-writing and writing. We can see signs being used systematically — but not yet phonetically. The leap to recording speech itself comes a few centuries later.

~2450 BCE

Stele of the Vultures

The earliest historical document in human history. Before this, we have lists, accounts, and dedications. Here, for the first time, a ruler tells us what happened — with names, places, and consequences.