RIME 3/1.add02.01.01, ex. 01

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The world's first empire under Sargon.

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From the same catalogue range (near P257509)

P257532 · ~3100 BCE

CUSAS 01, 176

“(Column 1) 6(N14) — barley — UR2 (blank/case division) — purchase — disbursed (Column 2) 4(N34) 1(N36) 2(N45)…”

P257510 · ~2130 BCE

RIME 3/1.add02.01.01, ex. 02

Transliteration

puzur4-inszuszinak
_ensi2_
szuszin#
_szagina_
ma-ti
elam
_dumu_ szim-pi2-isz-hu-uk
inszuszinak
e-NE-szum-ma
_e2_ szu-gu
i-pu-usz#

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Lagash II (ca. 2200-2100 BC)) — RIME 3/1.add02.01.01, ex. 01. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA (P257509) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P257509..

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