Position in chronology
Anonymous Nippur 65add
Not yet translated
This tablet is catalogued and photographed, but no published translation exists yet. Our translation engine works through the untranslated corpus every night, oldest first — this page will update the day its turn comes. If you are a specialist and can read it, we would love your help.
Why it matters
A fragmentary Early Dynastic royal inscription from Nippur, one of the earliest attestations linking royal authority to the office of chief governor of Enlil — evidence of how Sumerian kingship was legitimised through priestly-administrative titles c. 2450 BCE.
Scholarly note
Sumerian royal inscription, published in the Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Royal Inscriptions (ETCSRI) by Gábor Zólyomi and collaborators. Translation reproduced from the ETCSRI edition. ORACC text Q004246.
Attribution
Image: KM 63.6.001 + IM 058907a (Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA; National Museum of Iraq, Baghdad, Iraq) — from Nippur (mod. Nuffar) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P247517). source
Translation excerpted from Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Royal Inscriptions (ETCSRI), University of Vienna, edited by Gábor Zólyomi et al. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/etcsri/Q004246/.
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