Position in chronology
AUCT 1, 368
Translation — curated editorial
EditorialEditorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P103213.
Transliteration
ur-ba-ba6 engar 2(u) 4(disz) gu4 2(u) gu4 mu 3(disz) 1(u) 6(disz) gu4 mu 3(disz) giri3 szul-gi-dingir-kalam-ma ba-usz2 ad6 kusz-bi nu-ur2-suen szu ba-ti ki lugal-me-lam2-ta ba-zi iti diri ezem-me-ki-gal2 mu si-ma-num2 ba-hul 1(gesz2) gu4
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — AUCT 1, 368. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).
Attribution
Image: Siegfried H. Horn Museum, Institute of Archaeology, Andrews University, Berrien Springs, Michigan, USA (P103213) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P103213..
Related tablets
Related sources
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.
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.