Position in chronology
AUCT 2, 393
Translation — curated editorial
EditorialEditorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P104211.
Transliteration
1(u) 3(disz) gurusz 3(disz) sze 1(disz) ma-na siki-ta sze-bi 1(asz) 1(barig) 3(ban2) gur siki-bi 1(u) 3(disz) ma-na lu2 hun-ga2-me x ba-zi nu-banda3 en-um-iszkur iti ezem-szul-gi [mu] en nanna [kar]-zi-da ba-hun
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — AUCT 2, 393. 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 (P104211) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P104211..
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.