CUSAS 26, 145

Translation · reference

Experimental

Source: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P427621.

Why it matters

Transliteration

7(asz@c) e2#-mah#-ta#
lugal-iti(|UD@sxTIL|)-da
u3 ur-nigar
1(asz@c) 1(barig@c) ki ur-nigar-ta
1(barig@c) 2(ban2@c) ki x-iszkur
4(ban2@c) x [...]-x
2(asz@c) ki AN# x-ta#
4(asz@c) ki ba-za-za-ta
1(u@c) 5(asz@c) ki ur-nigar
1(u@c) la2 1(asz@c) bad3 ur-ab-ba
e2-mah-e
nin-x-[(x)]-x

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Akkadian (ca. 2340-2200 BC)) — CUSAS 26, 145. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: private: anonymous, unlocated (P427621) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P427621..

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The earliest historical document in human history.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.