CDLI Lexical 000031, ex. 007

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City-states, kings, the first wars.

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From the same catalogue range (near P222197)

P222198 · ~2400 BCE

MVN 03, 016

“[...]-ke4 (subject/commodity, broken — ergative marker) [Gu]abba (place name, partly broken) for/under the acc…”

P222199 · ~2400 BCE

MVN 03, 017

“1 lamsag-leather (sack), 10 (units) — in the house, the great granary that is built, [are on hand]. 4 hoes, 49…”

P222200 · ~2400 BCE

MVN 03, 018

“4 gur saggal of barley — barley of the field of Uru'a — Enigal, the overseer, (into) the granary of Baba, in L…”

P222201 · ~2400 BCE

MVN 03, 020

“[x (x)] jars. [1(gur)?] 2(barig) barley, (in) gur-measure. 1(gur)? 2(barig): Ur-šul. 8(gur) 2(barig)?: jars. 1…”

Transliteration

[...] masz si4
[...] TU
1(u)#? gukkal
[...] ab2 KAL
ga:amar
1(disz) gu4
1(u) u8
1(disz) utua
1(u) uz3
1(disz) masz2

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (ED IIIa (ca. 2600-2500 BC)) — CDLI Lexical 000031, ex. 007. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: Free Library of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA (P222197) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P222197..

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