BCT 2, 040

~2037 BCE·Ur III · Neo-Sumerian·P105281

Translation · reference

Experimental

Source: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P105281.

Why it matters

Transliteration

3(gesz2) 3(u) 6(disz) gurusz u4 1(disz)-sze3
ki-su7-ra kam-sal4-la gub-ba
nu-banda3-gu4 ur-e2-nun-na
kiszib3 lu2-dingir-ra
[mu ]szu-suen lugal#-e na-ru2-a-mah mu-du3
lu2-dingir-ra
dub-sar
dumu ha#-ba-lu5-ge2

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — BCT 2, 040. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format). [year-name] Dated to Šu-Suen y1 — Šu-Suen became king based on canonical year-name formula in the transliteration.

Attribution

Image: Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery, Birmingham, UK (P105281) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P105281..

Related tablets

Related sources

~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.

~1340 BCE

Amarna Letter EA 153 — Abi-milku of Tyre

Part of the earliest known body of international diplomatic correspondence. Akkadian, written in cuneiform on clay, was the lingua franca of Late Bronze Age statecraft — used between Egypt, the Hittites, Mitanni, Babylon, Assyria, and the Levantine vassals.

~3300 BCE

Clay tablet, late Uruk period, 3300-3100 BCE. Proto-cuneiform signs, food issue list " rations" written by combining a human head and a bowl. Purchased via Christie's in 1989, with contribution from the British Museum Friends