Adab 0965 + 1016-1

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The world it comes from

The world's first empire under Sargon.

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From the same catalogue range (near P217593)

Transliteration

[...] ziz2 gur mah
[...]-tu
2(barig@c) a-tu
[n] lal3-la
szunigin 4(asz@c) 2(barig@c) ziz2 gur mah
[sa2]-du11 dingir-re-ne-sze3#?
en-lil2 dub-sar-e
szu# ba-ti
iti# sze-sag-sa6-ga

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Akkadian (ca. 2340-2200 BC)) — Adab 0965 + 1016-1. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: Oriental Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA (P217593) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P217593..

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