UCP 10-01, 099

~1950 BCE·Old Babylonian·P248088

Translation · reference

Experimental

Source: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P248088.

Why it matters

Transliteration

_2(asz) 2(barig) gur sze_
_sza13-dub_ ru-uk-bi-im
sza [x]-ha-na
nam-ha-ar-ti
a-hu-szi-na
pu-ha-at
sza ne-ri-ib-tim
am-mu-ra-pi2
im-du-du
_iti_ ma-ag-ra-nu
_mu mar-gid2-da ku3-sig17_

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Early Old Babylonian (ca. 2000-1900 BC)) — UCP 10-01, 099. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA (P248088) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P248088..

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The earliest historical document in human history.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.