OIP 014, 070

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City-states, kings, the first wars.

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From the same catalogue range (near P222256)

P222252 · ~2400 BCE

OIP 014, 066

“[n] shekels of silver [...] [...] (traces, illegible) [...] Ur-lamsag(?) 1/3 (mina) 4 (shekels): nu-esz3 (offi…”

P222261 · ~2400 BCE

OIP 014, 075

“[x shekels of silver] — for Šeš-aranu; (erased: "ur") 2 shekels of silver — (for) Ur-mes, the fisherman; 2(?) …”

P222250 · ~2400 BCE

OIP 014, 063

“1(aš) — Ba-anše(?) 2(?) 1(aš) — Adda-tur 1(aš) — Gan-ki 1(aš) — Usar-gindu 1(aš) — Šu-Ištaran(?) smith(s)…”

P222247 · ~2400 BCE

OIP 014, 060

“30 hired workers (lu2-hun-ga2), 10 less 1 (= 9) servants (ARAD2), 10 copper ha-buda-implements (ha-bu3-da urud…”

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (ED IIIb (ca. 2500-2340 BC)) — OIP 014, 070. 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 (P222256) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P222256..

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