Position in chronology
Aleppo 227
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The world it comes from
A bureaucratic golden age, the Code of Ur-Nammu.
From the same catalogue range (near P100559)
Transliteration
5(disz) gurusz sza3-gu4 u4 2(disz)-sze3 bar-la2 i7 nin-he2-gal2-ka usz2-a ugula gu2-tar kiszib3 e2-gal-e-si iti pa4-u2-e mu ha-ar-szi ki-masz ba-hul [e2-gal-e-si] dub-[sar] dumu lu2-szara2 sa12-du5
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — Aleppo 227. This record has no stored scholarly English translation; the existence of published translations has not been checked; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).
Attribution
Image: National Museum of Syria, Aleppo, Syria (P100559) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no English translation stored at ingestion. P-number P100559..
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