MRAH O.5015

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City-states, kings, the first wars.

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From the same catalogue range (near P452989)

P452988 · ~2550 BCE

MRAH O.5014

“15 [capacity units] — fat/oil(?) [...] [UMBIN×UDU compound] Ibbūbu 15 [capacity units] — Šeš-pada 16 [capacity…”

P452986 · ~2550 BCE

MRAH O.5012

“24 [barley ...] al-mu (?) 24 — URIx 10 — Giri-ni men of the wall (?) Barley of the house of Šà-lu boat of Luga…”

P452985 · ~2550 BCE

MRAH O.5011

“[n+]2 barig of gamur, [n] sila3 of bronze — Ur-gu, cupbearer, House of NE-DAG; [table?] [sag-x?] GA-duh-hum, A…”

P452990 · ~1800 BCE

MRAH O.5023

Transliteration

1(asz@c) ha-bu#?-da uruda
szu?-in-szuba3
kiri6!?-sze3 he2-de2-e
3(u@c) GAN2 sza3#?
al!-gal2

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (ED IIIa (ca. 2600-2500 BC)) — MRAH O.5015. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: Musées royaux d’Art et d’Histoire, Brussels, Belgium (P452989) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P452989..

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