OIM A33679

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City-states, kings, the first wars.

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From the same catalogue range (near P429729)

P429769 · ~2050 BCE

Anonymous 429769

“5(aš) 1(barig) barley — interest-free (loan), from Ur-Suana, ...gani(?), received. [Year: ...] ... ... ... ...…”

CDLI Literary 000351, ex. 102

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (ED IIIa (ca. 2600-2500 BC)) — OIM A33679. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: OIM A33679 (Oriental Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA) — from Nippur (mod. Nuffar) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P429729). source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P429729..

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