TMH 05, 025

~2400 BCE·Early Dynastic·P020439

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P020439.

Transliteration

1(asz@c) a-ul4-gal
lu2-igi
1(asz@c) lu2
a-zu5-zu5
lugal-me-sze3-gal2
ba-ta-gur
1(asz@c) lu2
ur-szul-pa-e3
ba-ta-e3
1(asz@c) lu2
ur-abzu-ke4
ba-ta-e3
1(asz@c) lu2
ne-sag
ba-ta-e3

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (ED IIIb (ca. 2500-2340 BC)) — TMH 05, 025. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: Hilprecht Collection, University of Jena, Germany (P020439) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P020439..

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.

~2050 BCE

Drehem Cattle-Distribution Tablet

A window into the world's first total state. The Ur III administration tracked every animal, every worker, every shekel — for a population in the millions. The level of paperwork was not exceeded until the modern era.

~3300 BCE

AoF 30, 238,1