KTT 118

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P392753.

Transliteration

3(asz) _a-gar3 sze_
i-na _asz-gur gi-na_
_szu-ti-a_
suen-ri-s,u2-szu
_zi-ga sze gibil4_
sza# isz-tu s,e2-er-da
_lu2-mesz_ a-hu-na-yu
isz-szu-<<ru>>-nim
_iti_ ki-nu-nim _u4 2(u) 3(disz)-kam_
li#-mu sza _egir_
ni-me-er-suen

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — KTT 118. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: National Museum of Syria, Raqqa, Syria (P392753) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P392753..

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.

~2050 BCE

Drehem Cattle-Distribution Tablet

A window into the world's first total state. The Ur III administration tracked every animal, every worker, every shekel — for a population in the millions. The level of paperwork was not exceeded until the modern era.

~3300 BCE

AoF 30, 238,1