AAICAB 1/2, pl. 123, 1971-256

~2046 BCE·Ur III · Neo-Sumerian·P248771

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A bureaucratic golden age, the Code of Ur-Nammu.

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AAICAB 1/2, pl. 123, 1971-257

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AAICAB 1/2, pl. 124, 1971-258

Transliteration

3(u) 4(disz) ug3-IL2
ugula szara2-nir-gal2
3(u) 5(disz) ug3-IL2
ugula lu2-nanna
kab2-ku5 amar-suen-szara2-ki-ag2 til-a
gurum2-ak u4 7(disz)-kam
iti sze-kar-ra-gal2-la
mu en inanna unu masz2-e i3-pa3

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — AAICAB 1/2, pl. 123, 1971-256. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK (P248771) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P248771..

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