Hermitage 3, 345

~2050 BCE·Ur III · Neo-Sumerian·P212153

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P212153.

Transliteration

1(disz) udu x x x x ensi2# [...]
1(disz) sila4 ur-amar-suen
1(disz) sila4 lu2-x-x x
2(disz) amar az
ur-isztaran
1(disz) masz2 x x x
5(disz) udu niga 1(disz) sila4
usz?-x x x
1(disz) masz2 xxx
mu-kux(DU) ab-ba-sa6-ga i3-dab5
giri3 nu-ur2-suen dub-sar
iti ezem-an-na
mu en eridu[ ba-hun]
1(u) 2(disz)

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — Hermitage 3, 345. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation (P212153) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P212153..

Related tablets

Related sources

~3200 BCE

Proto-Cuneiform Account Tablet

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.

~3500 BCE

Kish Tablet

Marks the boundary between proto-writing and writing. We can see signs being used systematically — but not yet phonetically. The leap to recording speech itself comes a few centuries later.

~2450 BCE

Stele of the Vultures

The earliest historical document in human history. Before this, we have lists, accounts, and dedications. Here, for the first time, a ruler tells us what happened — with names, places, and consequences.