AJSL 32, p. 275, 288, no. 12

~1950 BCE·Old Babylonian·P333357

Translation · reference

Experimental

Source: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P333357.

Why it matters

Transliteration

a-na [...]
la te-gi#-[a ...]
sze-um lu-u2 [x x x x x]
mi-im-ma sza _a-sza3_-li-im
u3 bi-tim la e-szi-em-me-e-ma
li-ib-bi la i-ma-ra-as,
sze-a-am a-na ma-asz-ka-ni-im
szu-li-a-ma a-na _a-sza3_-li-im
me-e i-di-a-ma mi-ik-ra-am
da#-am-qi2-isz# li#-im#-ma-ki-ir
s,u2-ha-ru-u2 isz-tu _a-sza3_-li-im
_ba-al-ri_ li-lu#-nim
ta-ri-bu-um
u3 [x]-AB?/DU?-_dingir_
t,u2-ur-da-nim

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Early Old Babylonian (ca. 2000-1900 BC)) — AJSL 32, p. 275, 288, no. 12. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: Oriental Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA (P333357) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P333357..

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The earliest historical document in human history.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.