VS 26, 101

~1900 BCE·Old Assyrian·P358247

Translation · reference

Experimental

Source: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P358247.

Why it matters

Transliteration

[szu]-ma [tu3]-zi#-[num]
[u2]-ul ma-ma-an#
a-szu-mi3 _e2#_[]
a-na la2-bar-sza
i-tu3-wa-ar
1(disz) _ma-na_ 1(u) 5(disz) _gin2 ku3-babbar_
i-sza-qal _igi_ ha-szu-i
_igi_ za-pa2-ra-asz2-na
_igi_ pe2-ru-wa
be2#-lu tu3-zi-nim
_igi#_ ka3-ru-nu#-[wa]
_igi_ isz-ku-na-x
_igi_ s,i2-li-[x]

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Assyrian (ca. 1950-1850 BC)) — VS 26, 101. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin, Germany (P358247) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P358247..

Related tablets

Related sources

~3200 BCE

Proto-Cuneiform Account Tablet

One of the earliest specimens of human writing. Not literature, not law — accounting. The need to keep track of grain in a temple bureaucracy is what pushed marks-on-clay into a system that could one day carry epics.

~3500 BCE

Kish Tablet

Marks the boundary between proto-writing and writing. We can see signs being used systematically — but not yet phonetically. The leap to recording speech itself comes a few centuries later.

~2450 BCE

Stele of the Vultures

The earliest historical document in human history. Before this, we have lists, accounts, and dedications. Here, for the first time, a ruler tells us what happened — with names, places, and consequences.