FTP 003

~2550 BCE·Early Dynastic·P222077

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City-states, kings, the first wars.

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P222073 · ~2400 BCE

Nik 1, 304

“12 (units of) copper/bronze — zabar3-|KAxX|-zi (type) 12 (units of) copper/bronze — šu ("hand"-type) 6 (units …”

P222071 · ~2400 BCE

Nik 1, 302

“1(asz@c) 2(disz@t) mina(s) of wool (tug₂) ... [......] ...... [......] 1(asz@c) [2(disz@t) mina(s) of wool] — …”

P222068 · ~2400 BCE

Nik 1, 299

“(Break — beginning missing) Its weight: 13 mana(-weight) — weighed out from/against the stone-weight of the w…”

P222066 · ~2400 BCE

Nik 1, 297

“1/2(asz@c) mana of wool, white(-dyed) plant(-quality), (for) Geshgal-si, the gala (lamentation-priest), for th…”

Transliteration

1(asz@c) masz2
AB
1(asz@c) en-lil2
szu#-gi4
ur2-ni

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (ED IIIa (ca. 2600-2500 BC)) — FTP 003. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA (P222077) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P222077..

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